Aging proverbs

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◆ To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez98

◆ Embrace aging.

- Mitch Albom98

◆ A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

- Douglas Coupland98

◆ In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you're just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless. (418)

- Victoria Moran98

◆ I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

- Nicole Krauss98

◆ Now is the time to become a myth.

- Diane Von Furstenberg98

◆ If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.

- Bauvard98

◆ I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

- Amy Sedaris98

◆ The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.

- Pink Floyd "Free Four"98

◆ Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.

- Virginia Woolf98

◆ Lines don't make beautiful women less beautiful

- Isabel Wolff98

◆ I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

- Amy Neftzger98

◆ Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.

- Haruki Murakami98

◆ I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

- Carrie Fisher98

◆ Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

- Jessica Simpson98