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Now Now being in my old age I am looking To find the vivid spirit, to praise my death Autumn is near, the final winter And spring returns greedy. RightWords Translation

MQuote by Miron Kiropol about death, autumn, olderness, praise, spring, age, old, spirit, being

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other...

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

Quote by Julian Patrick Barnes about olderness, eyes, opinion, old, contentment, people

Nothing to understand: you open the book passing your soul over its old parchment a pale light starts suddenly flowing a poisoned spear falls down bloody wars corpses ever more deeply slashed in ever greater numbers until they are...

OQuote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, numbers, nothing, light, soul, old, olderness, death, spirit, contentment

Each age has its paradise, which loses, in the end.

Each age has its paradise, which loses, in the end.

Quote by Mihail Sadoveanu about age, paradise, olderness, end

Every nation and every age is standing on the shoulders...

Every nation and every age is standing on the shoulders of the past.

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about past, nation, age, olderness

In fact, we value youth because we know that one day ir...

In fact, we value youth because we know that one day ir will reach the old age.

Quote by Mircea Eliade about youth, olderness, value, age, old, day

The young I was before doesn't exist anymore and the old...

The young I was before doesn't exist anymore and the old person I will be hurries towards me.

Quote by Marius Torok about time, old, olderness, people

Only lie keeps up with fashion, the truth is always old...

Only lie keeps up with fashion, the truth is always old fashioned.

GQuote by Gavriil Stiharul about truth, fashion, lie, old, olderness

Before being old I want to be young, for preventing the...

Before being old I want to be young, for preventing the arrival of the old man.

Quote by Marius Torok about time, old, olderness, being, man

Old age is the out-patients'department of purgatory.

Old age is the out-patients'department of purgatory.

Quote by Hugh Cecil about olderness, age, old

Ages seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's often a...

Ages seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's often a succession of jerks.

Quote by Jean Rhys about olderness

The only menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that...

The only menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Quote by Jean Kerr about conduct, old, olderness, time, contentment

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Quote by Lin Yutang about woman, fight, country, age, olderness

Old age... it is the only disease you don't look forward...

Old age... it is the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

Quote by Herman Jacob Mankiewicz about olderness, age, old, being, contentment

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

Quote by Roger Vernon Scruton about opinion, garden, seduction, blood, sex, home, age, olderness, fire, fire brigade

The baby laughs: The wisdom and my love is the game! The young sings: Thegame and my wisdom is the love! The old is silent: Thegame and my wisdom is the! Three faces

Quote by Lucian Blaga about age, wisdom, games, love, old, olderness

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Quote by Maurice Chevalier about olderness, youth, reward, age, old, world

A man growing old becomes a child again.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Quote by Sofocle about olderness, children, old, man

Age considers; youth ventures.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Quote by Rabindranath Tagore about olderness, youth, age

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you do not mind, ...

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you do not mind, it does not matter.

Quote by Mark Twain about age, mind, olderness, contentment

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