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Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

This was mine. How extraordinary. And it looks the same as it did the last time I saw it. The reflection has changed a bit.

Rose Dawson Calvert

Well, one nice thing about getting old is nothing frightens you.

Hauru no ugoku shiro

With age the life is such a badness...

Alexander Pushkin

A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

William Shakespeare

The Life of King Henry the Fifth

King Henry the Fifth

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Arthur Wing Pinero

— What, you cut yourself shaving?
— Yeah.
— Old razor?
— Old face.

Lethal Weapon 3

If I'm gonna be an old, lonely man, I'm gonna need a thing. You know, a hook. Like that guy on the subway who eats his own face. So I figure I'll be
"Crazy Man With A Snake." Crazy Snake Man. Then I'll get more snakes, call them my babies.

When I'm 80 years old and sitting on my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will ask me: "After all this time?" and I'll say: "Always".

— Why, that's me! Look at me! I'm an old man! Thank God, I've still got my hair. What's this thing I'm wearing?
— This is a radiation suit.
— Radiation suit? Of course. 'Cause of all the fallout from the atomic wars.

Back to the Future

Dr. Emmett Brown

A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid. A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable.

Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you.

captain Malcolm Reynolds

That’s the purpose of old age. To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Colin McCullough

Maybe senility’s a mercy shown to those who couldn’t face retrospection.

Colin McCullough

Three things to remember when you get older: Never pass up a bathroom... never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart.

The Bucket List

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