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My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ... — Osamu Tezuka

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born. — Dee Hock

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends. — Marilyn Yalom

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington

Death is just another path to take, as real as morning. — Na'ama Yehuda

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come. — Alain De Botton

We each have an appointment with death. I'd rather die for a cause than die of old age never having done something important. — Brenda Drake

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. — Elbert Hubbard

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Death laughs when old women frolic. — Publilius Syrus

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered, — Gene Simmons

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace

Old age began with one's 1st fall and the death came with the 2nd . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You know you're old when the president is younger than you. — Steve Kangas

I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world. — Terry Goodkind

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. — Julian Barnes

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in. — Dan Groat

How young can you die of old age? — Steven Wright

Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. — Julia Child

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death. — Simone De Beauvoir

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago. — Nick Lane

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. — Jean De La Bruyere

Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of # movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death. — Tony Robbins

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph — Munia Khan

Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse

The fear of death is strangely mingled with the longing for repose. — Will Durant

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death. — Diane De Poitiers

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it. — David Gemmell

Grizzled old bastard like him don't go providing death-bed transformations. — Sebastian Barry

Old age is an island surrounded by death. — Juan Montalvo

Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother. — Vipin Behari Goyal

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. — Jean De La Bruyere

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them. — Muso Soseki

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit. — Friedrich Muller

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity. — Dr. Sherwin Nuland

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. — Jane Addams

Not even old age knows how to love death. — Sophocles

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. — Miguel De Unamuno

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books. — Lance Olsen

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Tis my will that thou and he shall die by my hand. Thou hast but to choose the manner of thy death." "Old age," Cimorene said promptly. "Mock — Patricia C. Wrede

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

When old folks laugh,
they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them. — Maya Angelou

But me
They cannot touch,
Old age and death.the strange
And ignominious end of old
Dead folk! — Adelaide Crapsey

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123) — Herman Melville

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die. — Kate Millett

It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust. — Livia Blackburne

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. — Samuel Johnson

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. — Edith Wharton

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. — Meghna Pant

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. — Nicholas Sparks

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down. — Donald Hall

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath. — Mark Doty

The final desire of any warrior is a good death. — Lance Conrad