Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
In India there__ no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man__ face and you__l find an old man__ mind.
He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes
A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.
I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are old.
He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.
As long as your life is a succession of love stories, you can never grow old.
How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?
it does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it ,its not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes _ a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.
You are only old once, but you can be immature forever.
Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went.
As I have aged, I__e been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.