All Quotes By Tag: Age
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
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“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
“How old would you be if you did not know your exact age?”
“Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn’t life’s business to reward merit, why should it be life’s business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?”
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“Nat: Maybe you broke something.Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!Nat: Ah, it’s nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That’s the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.”
“Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don’t you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.”
“Now, five years is nothing in a man’s life except when he is very young and very old…- Wang Lung”
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“Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
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“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
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“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
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“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.”
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“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
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“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.”
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“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
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“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I know you are unable to imagine this.Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved.”
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