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title: "24 Later Years Quotes by 21 authors"
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> [In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-tierney/in-later-years-i-craved-foods-that-were-almost-always-fattening/)

[Gene Tierney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-tierney/)

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> [My later years are my treasure years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-hay/my-later-years-are-my-treasure-years/)

[Louise Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-hay/)

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> [I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-think-that-one-of-the-questions-that-i-asked-of-myself-in-later/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [ \[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:\] I'm what's left of her, dahling. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tallulah-bankhead/on-being-asked-in-her-later-years-if-she-were-tallulah-i-m-what-s/)

[Tallulah Bankhead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tallulah-bankhead/)

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> [Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-hay/negative-thinking-is-prevalent-in-particular-among-so-many-women-in/)

[Louise Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-hay/)

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> [I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-am-content-in-my-later-years-i-have-kept-my-good-humor-and-take/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“I have observed that in process of becoming ultra rich & famous individual, most of them at later years in life dies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aditya-ajmera/i-have-observed-that-in-process-of-becoming-ultra-rich-famous/)

[Aditya Ajmera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aditya-ajmera/)

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> [The good news is that even a bad and painful childhood may be put behind in our later years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kumar-anupam/the-good-news-is-that-even-a-bad-and-painful-childhood-may-be-put/)

[Kumar Anupam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kumar-anupam/)

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> [In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-tierney/in-later-years-during-what-might-be-called-my-gray-outs-when-i-was/)

[Gene Tierney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-tierney/)

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> [...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-sanders/the-hard-work-and-poverty-of-my-childhoodturned-out-to-be-my-greatest/)

[Sue Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-sanders/)

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> [Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-walpole/old-friends-are-the-great-blessings-of-one-s-later-years-half-a-word/)

[Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-walpole/)

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> [Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/often-the-only-thing-a-child-can-remember-about-an-adult-in-later/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [“For however one may come in later years to reassess one’s achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one’s life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kazuo-ishiguro/for-however-one-may-come-in-later-years-to-reassess-one-s/)

[Kazuo Ishiguro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kazuo-ishiguro/)

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> [“When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-verghese/when-he-recalls-it-in-later-years-he-will-wonder-if-he-is-distorting/)

[Abraham Verghese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-verghese/)

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> [Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/nevertheless-whether-in-occurrences-lasting-days-hours-or-mere/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elsa-maxwell/people-who-have-escaped-from-poverty-are-like-old-soldiers-in-later/)

[Elsa Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elsa-maxwell/)

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> [I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johnny-depp/i-have-known-plenty-of-people-who-in-their-later-years-had-the-energy/)

[Johnny Depp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johnny-depp/)

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> [In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-grant/in-my-father-s-later-years-he-asked-several-times-that-i-remember-him/)

[Jennifer Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-grant/)

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> [Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hillman/aging-is-no-accident-it-is-necessary-to-the-human-condition-intended/)

[James Hillman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hillman/)

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> [In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/in-the-early-years-you-fight-because-you-don-t-understand-each-other/)

[Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/)

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> [Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-meynell/youthful-days-are-longer-than-those-of-later-years-as-we-all-learn-as/)

[Esther Meynell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-meynell/)

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> [See your later years as becoming your treasure years. Sit quietly and think of all the times you were joyful, and let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-hay/see-your-later-years-as-becoming-your-treasure-years-sit-quietly-and/)

[Louise Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-hay/)

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> [In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-kinzer/in-1983-most-nicaraguans-had-still-not-fallen-to-the-depths-of/)

[Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-kinzer/)

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> [“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-l-amour/i-know-only-that-civilizations-seem-to-be-like-people-they-are-born/)

[Louis L'Amour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-l-amour/)

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