“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”
— Philip Roth, book Everyman
Source: Everyman (2006)
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“Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amour-2013 of Amour (9 January 2013) <br class="br">Reviews, Four star reviews <br class="br">Context: Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film. … This is now. We are filled with optimism and expectation. Why would we want to see such a film, however brilliantly it has been made? I think it's because a film like Amour has a lesson for us that only the cinema can teach: the cinema, with its heedless ability to leap across time and transcend lives and dramatize what it means to be a member of humankind's eternal audience.
“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”
Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972) French actor, singer and entertainer
Quoted in This Week magazine, 15 May 1960 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/167723755.html
Adolph Freiherr Knigge book Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Ehre das Alter!
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
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Apophthegms (1624)
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
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
