> "I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." T. S. Eliot — Philosophy On Ice (@PhilosophyOI) April 27, 2020 [https://twitter.com/PhilosophyOI/status/1254717369840271360?ref_src=twsrc%…
> We wrongly think Old People were always old; but those rheumy eyes and fragile bones once celebrated all of youth’s energetically sweaty cravings and passions. — Marcel Proust (@ProustTweet) April 20, 2020 [https://twitter.com/ProustTweet/status/1252284652376686600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > The old age of my acquaintances…
> "The worst of getting old," said Winnie, "is the time one has to spend in patching oneself up." English novelist, Miss Read died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] in 2012 #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=…
> Co-sign. "One thing I’ve absolutely noticed about myself, and which should be true as you get older: it’s not that you want to die, but you are less attached to life. You’re less panicked." —Fran Lebowitzhttps://t.co/PfqSDwC9fg — Jeffrey Cufaude (he/him) (@jc46202)…
> "As you grow older you become an immigrant from a vanished country, a country some of your peers may remember but the young may find unimaginable or incomprehensible."#ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] https://t.co/DJl8fQTvhW — Read More…
> "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains."Whitman, after a paralytic stroke, on what makes life worth living https://t.co/evPbb1UqKv — Maria Popova…
> “One of the good things about old age is that one often feels like a child. There is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious.” —May Sarton https://t.co/zTShHAMA3J — The Paris Review (@parisreview) January 23, 2020…
> “I don’t like aging a whole lot. The ankles, the knees hurt. But one of the things I do like is that from where I sit on my front porch, I have hindsight, insight, and foresight. And that’s a beautiful gift of aging.” — @RubyNSales [https://twitter.com/…