All Quotes By Tag: Elderly
“It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.”
“ان تدرك ان عمرك قصير في عمر صغير هو ان تقطع مسافة الحياة برهة لتعود لتكتشف ان لم تكن صغيرا من البداية و ان ادراكك كان فكرة خلقت عليها عكس ما كانت عقارب الساعة تشير .”
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”
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“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”
“I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert’s dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.”
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“We still need the old to tell the young that in time they will learn.”
“Old age had distilled her down to her essence.”
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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.”