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TOP 10 old age quotes

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Lydia M. Child

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

William Wordsworth

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

Maeve Binchy

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

Julian Barnes

He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.

Salman Rushdie