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Age Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a…
- Old age is life's parody.
- Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than…
- There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on…
- Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside…
- Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social…
- One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
More Age Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood