#growing old

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ↗

— Euripides

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If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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A man growing old becomes a child again. ↗

— Sophocles

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No one longs to live more than someone growing old. ↗

— Sophocles

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Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

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