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“On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life… [ellipsis… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“It’s all Dhamma if we have mindfulness. When we see the animals that run away from danger, we see that they are… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Desperately. Tally searched her brain for a prayer. Any prayer. Now I lay me down to sleep... No! Not that one. Hail… — Cherry Adair Copy Share Image
“Discipline I am old and I have had more than my share of good and bad. I've had love and sorrow, seen… — Meryl Gordon Copy Share Image
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth,… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
“In spite of all my aches and pains, and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just a chit like Gina.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“But if you judge safety to be the paramount consideration in life you should never, under any circumstances, go on long hikes… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
“Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
“If old people be found in the way of righteousness, their age will be their honour. Old age, as such, is honourable,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“And one asks oneself where are one's dreams. And one shakes one's head and says how rapidly the years fly by! And… — Fiódor Dostoiévski Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I mean, we don’t have to worry about it until winter, anyway,” she said. “I was just wondering if you felt cured.”… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
“You see, the penis, it's so graceless, wouldn't you agree? When it's cold and shrivelled up, it looks like W.H. Auden in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“So hard for me to realize," Bernard was saying, "to reconstruct. As though we were living on different planets, in different centuries.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I was sent forth from the power, and I have come to those who reflect upon me, and I have been found… — George W. Macrae Copy Share Image
Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter… — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
“You dreamed like all mothers do. Until he began to speak aloud, Your boy, calling for justice in the market place, Demanding… — Edwina Gateley Copy Share Image
“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years… — Andrew Coster Copy Share Image
“Early youth is a baffling time. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The human life-cycle is no different than the 4 season changes, here on Earth We have birth(Spring), maturity(Summer), old age(Fall), and death(Winter).… — YourMaj3sty Copy Share Image
“There is a significant hereditary contribution to ADD but I do not believe any genetic factor is decisive in the emergence of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
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