CURATED COLLECTION

Aging With Grace

Growing old is not a defeat — it is the accumulation of everything you survived and became.

50 quotes found

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

—Sylvia PlathPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Everything which exists has its opposite, and we must learn to live with both.

—Magda SzabóNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Time is the wisest of all things, for it brings everything to light.

—Thales of MiletusPhilosopher & Mathematician

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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In old age, one desires tranquility and finds it in nothingness.

—Wang WeiPoet & Painter

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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Time does not heal all wounds. It only teaches us to live with them.

—Chiung YaoNovelist

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things.

—Anna KomneneHistorian & Emperor

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Endure, my heart: you have endured worse things than this.

—HomerEpic Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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A person's life is a candle's flame; it can be snuffed out at any moment.

—Pramoedya Ananta ToerNovelist & Writer

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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All is vanity. Nothing is real but the moment.

—Andreas GryphiusPoet & Playwright

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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History is a great teacher. Men who ignore it are condemned to repeat it.

—Haile SelassieEmperor

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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It is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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We are all prisoners of our memories, our desires, our history. There is no escape.

—Pham Thi HoaiNovelist & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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Life is a railway station, where one gets off for a while, then goes on.

—Marina TsvetaevaPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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We all came out of one darkness, and we will all return to another.

—Jhumpa LahiriAuthor

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without being wise.

—SocratesPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Even if you have the wealth of Karun, you will eventually go to the grave with nothing.

—Saadi ShiraziPoet & Writer

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

—Ursula K. Le GuinAuthor

Post-War ERA • North America

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

—Charlotte BrontëNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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What happened cannot be undone. You can only look ahead, not behind.

—Zhang AilingWriter & Novelist

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation.

—Olive SchreinerNovelist, Feminist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • Southern Africa

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