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Aging Quotes by George Eliot
- The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving…
- It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great…
- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to…
- There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
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