“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”
Source: Fall of Kings
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“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=pgPWOaOctq8C&q=%22The+secret+of+a+good+old+age+is+simply+an+honorable+pact+with+solitude%22&pg=PA199#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson book Ulysses
Source: Ulysses (1842), l. 46-53
Context: Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me —
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Conclusion, p. 539
The Coming of Age (1970)
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" http://www.bartleby.com/142/82., 12, Leaves of Grass (1855) <br class="br">Misattributed
“Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"En la vejez todo es triste y ridículo: hasta el miedo a la muerte."
Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
“No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.”
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
Trotzky's Diary in Exile — 1935 (1958)