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The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog. — Jane Bowles

Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past. — David S.E. Zapanta

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery. — Dorothy Parker

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me. — Patrick Carman

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. — Chavela Vargas

I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death. — David Gemmell

Conversion is not merely a ticket out of hell. It is the beginning of a whole new life, not just an end to the old one. — Aimee Byrd

Nearby, an old man was similarly engaged in finding the pattern of his life in the depths of his glass. — Ray Bradbury

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies. — Jennifer Lawrence

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The moment I drove away in September I felt like someone was following our car with an eraser, rubbing out my old life. — Samantha Schutz

The rebel in him flared to life like an old, familiar friend. — J.M. Stewart

A calling is that thing that you can't not do, an answer to the age-old question, "What should I do with my life? — Jeff Goins

One day you realise your old life was only an escape from an inner silence — Judy Croome

I'm well on my way to achieving my life-goal: to become an eccentric old woman. — Kate Rauner

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee. — W.C. Fields

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's. — Deepak Chopra

They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind. — Amelia Gray

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.' — Tom Preston-Werner

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business. — George Lucas

As I approach mid-life, I feel like the old boot that lands on Mayfair after an eight-hour game of Monopoly. — Fennel Hudson

Life is full of challenges large and small - each an invitation to retire old ways of thinking and to stretch toward new and better solutions. — Keith McFarland

It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie. — David Levithan

Nobody loves life like an old man. — Sophocles

An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience. — Eleanor Brownn

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game. — Vin Scully

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals. — George Washington

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood. — Billy Graham

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind. — L.M. Montgomery

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live? — Diane Ackerman

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. — Sylvester Stallone

I am 1324512000 seconds old. In the cosmic blink of an eye, I will become once again cosmic dust. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference. — Gary Inbinder

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune. — Maureen O'Hara

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table. — Pierce Brosnan

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse. — Henry David Thoreau

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan

Life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet. — Peter Kreeft

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. — Wendy Mass

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new. — Yael Naim

The bowed frame of an old man is the settlement in the architecture of life. Nature had formed him for sadness. — Victor Hugo

There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. — Graham Greene

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not. — Lenore Terr

It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it — Christie Golden

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. — Clint Eastwood

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. — Lou Holtz

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it. — Iain Banks

It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there. — John O'Donohue

To have an old dog is to look into the eyes of the sweetest soul you know and see traces of the early light of the worst day of your life. — Meghan Daum

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. — Pablo Casals

I knew an old lady in the Highlands once, who said the lines in your hand don't predict your life; they reflect it. — Diana Gabaldon

But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms. — John Dos Passos

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life. — Beatrix Potter

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Life is a collection of experiences. To experience each moment fully and accept it is an art. The art of living gracefully and never growing 'old'. — Rashmi Bansal

Suppose
Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head. — E. E. Cummings

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one. — Michael Penn

If you want the advice of an old man, don't be afraid of making mistakes. That's life. Just be sure you're making them for the right reason. — Lou Harper

For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. — Green Day

Life's an old story. we all know how it ends. — Marty Rubin

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened." — Dale Carnegie

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you have an old habit of competing and comparing yourself with others, then you are still living your life like a sperm. GROW UP!! — Saurabh Sharma

take it from an old man like me, life's too short to get hung up on a little bit of barbed wire — Theresa Shea

A person dies every second, but there's also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind. — Craig Stone

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old. — Aaron Yoo

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life. — Henri Pirenne

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. — Charles Frazier

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins

What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life. — Frederick Lenz

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime. — Arabella Weir

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns

Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life. — C. G. Jung

I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud. — Christy Hall

If you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires. — Seneca.

A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. — John Lennon

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it. — Carl Jung

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back. — Mason Cooley

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible. — Henning Mankell

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. — Pat Conroy

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed. — Atalina Wright

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend ... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. — Ian McKellen

My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse. — Tim Burton

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life. — J.K. Rowling

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths. — James D. Maxon

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve.
Bethia as an old woman about to die
p 257 — Geraldine Brooks

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress. — Jandy Nelson