Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get… — Katie Piper 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
“Grow old gracefully. Drop your desires when you lose ability to fulfill them. Otherwise you will try to fulfill them through others;… — Shunya Copy Share Image
You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead. — John Mendoza Copy Share Image
“Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“He just stared into the flames. 2 A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else. In his… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the past has shaken the foundation of our faith. Nothing in the present can move it. Nothing in the future… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.'… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
