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Aging Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
- You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,…
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
- The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
More Aging Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius