Quotes About Decrepitude

#1. I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Mary Roach

#2. My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

Jane Fonda

#3. With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

Mason Cooley

#4. States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Jane Fonda

#6. For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

William E. Gladstone

#7. I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Decrepitude; the preferred clientele, literate.

Anonymous

#9. violence cannot be everlasting. Sooner or later it has to go, if not through wisdom, definitely through decrepitude, which comes on with years, whether one wants it or not.

R.K. Narayan

#10. I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

Ian McKellen

#11. I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

Emile M. Cioran

#12. A nation is truly corrupted when having ... lost its character and it's liberty, it passes from democracy to aristocracy or to monarchy. That is the decrepitude and death of the body politic ...

Maximilien De Robespierre

#13. She wasn't just old, not anymore. She'd sailed right past old and into the port called Decrepitude.

Richard Gleaves

#14. Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

Horace Walpole

#15. We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

Julia Child

#17. If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.

Siegfried Sassoon

#18. Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#19. ( ... ) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

Steven Pinker

#20. Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.

William Butler Yeats

#21. I made a resolution to telephone my mother the next day, but it was a safe resolution; no one can hold you to a decision made in middle of the night.And then my spine sent me an alarm. A presence. Here. Now. At my side.

Diane Setterfield

#22. I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

Alison Moyet

#23. It began, as it often does, with a woman putting her ducks in a row.

Sarah Blake

#24. I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all the wonders of this brave new century should draw me from my grief and yet I can not heal my heart; and so the mind suffers; the mind closes as if it were a flower without sun

Anne Rice

#26. The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.

Guy Kawasaki

#27. Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Jim George

#28. Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

Raquel Welch