Simone de Beauvoir Quote

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

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Patrick Swayze

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Sophocles

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Destiny

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Paulo Coelho

• Death
• Life

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Nadia Comaneci

So people think I've been lying about my age all this time, It's the records that are wrong. I've never once told anyone how old I am.

Calista Flockhart

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Liv Tyler

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.

Bill Gates

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Giorgio Armani

• Time

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

• Death

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

• Death
• People

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

• Fortune

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Roger Penrose

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hermann Hesse

• Death

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Michelangelo

• God

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf