> “Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.” — Joan Didion (@didionquotes) January 7, 2015 [https://twitter.com/didionquotes/status/552694644338089984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> “Old-people projects keep old people old. You’re no longer old when you’re dead.” A Personal History by John McPhee. https://t.co/uaV3IXpMzU — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 6, 2020 [https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1214185238517207047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > Old age is always wakeful;…
> "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." Happy Birthday, dear Emily! 🌹 — Emily Dickinson (@E_Dickinson) December 10, 2019 [https://twitter.com/E_Dickinson/status/1204419554253967360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Another opinion [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/if-only/].…
> "Life's short span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes." - 'Odes. Book One' Horace died #OTD [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OTD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] 8 BC. https://t.co/5uLbpFVpzq — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) November 27, 2019 [https:…
> “I always liked people who were older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.” —Fran Lebowitz https://t.co/rH4dSsS8fn — The Paris Review (@parisreview) November 20, 2019 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/1196956825700184064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
via Sententiae Antiquae [https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2019/08/18/cranky-about-the-state-of-the-country/]…
> Immortality is no substitute for life itself, and this is the Stones’ message to their fellow septuagenarians: don’t give up — if you’ve still got it, use it. https://t.co/pgFRYJogPj — Garrison Keillor (@g_keillor) August 13, 2019 [https://twitter.com/g_keillor/status/1161406413773660160?ref_src=…
> The one advantage the elderly have over the young is knowing how much they don’t (and will never) know. — Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) August 9, 2019 [https://twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/1159677946916818944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…