Age Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Aging Middle Middle age Middle ages Obsolete Questioning Self Self questioning Sixty Truth Seeking
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you say, 'I did that twenty years ago' and twenty years doesn't cover it. — L Vincent Majestic Copy Share Image
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth that was… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“EACH RECRIMINATIVE DECADE POSES NEW riddles, how best to live, how best to write. One's fifties, in principle less acceptable than one's forties, at… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
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As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
