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Aging Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
- As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
- In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
More Aging Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do. — Harrison Ford
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- 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