Aging Quote by Aeschylus

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

— Aeschylus

“Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.”

— Roland Barthes

...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It…

— Lauren Oliver

As you get older, you try to clean things up.

— Beneil Dariush

You glorify the past when the future dries up.

— U2

“If we first purify our souls, we desire to dwell in clean surroundings.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

— Elsa Triolet

You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

— Will Rogers

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

— Armand Hammer

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

— David Lee Roth