“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.”
https://books.google.com/books?id=CbfTjcDmA6gC&pg=RA1-PA26&lpg=RA1-PA26&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false The Book of Life (1921)
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H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
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Context: They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.
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Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher
Source: The Passionate Life (1983), p. 24
“Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.”
Octavia E. Butler book Imago
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter II, “Exile” section 9 (p. 649)
“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
What I Think (1956), p. 142
Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians 4:4-5 (as quoted in New Living Translation http://biblehub.com/nlt/1_thessalonians/4.htm) <br class="br">First Epistle to the Thessalonians