Aging

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Age will not be defied.

Francis Bacon

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Relentlessness of time Aging Death The human condition

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Regimen of Health Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Bacon, Francis "Of Regimen of Health." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Regimen of Health." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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Beauty Grace Aging Middle age

Author

John Donne

Source

Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegies (John Donne)

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy IX: The Autumnal." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 1.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy: The Autumnal." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 1.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Losing a loved one Aging Loneliness The human condition

Author

Lord Byron

Source

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 2, st. 98.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 98.

The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew,
The heart less bounding at emotion new,
And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again.

Matthew Arnold

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Loss of passion Aging

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Thyrsis

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

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Arnold, Matthew. "Thyrsis." Macmillan's Magazine, 1866.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Thyrsis (1866)." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012.

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.

Robert Browning

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Aging

Author

Robert Browning

Source

Rabbi ben Ezra

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman & Hall, 1864, I. 1.

Current Citation

Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Emotions Youth vs. old age Aging

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

Our hair
turns white with our ripening
as though to fly away in some
coming wind, bearing the seed
of what we know.

Wendell Berry

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Aging Wisdom

Author

Wendell Berry

Source

Ripening

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Berry, Wendell. "Ripening." A Part. North Point Press, 1980.

Oh! the old swimmin' hole! When I last saw the place,
The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face.

James Whitcomb Riley

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Remembering one's youth Aging

Author

James Whitcomb Riley

Source

The Old Swimmin' Hole

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Riley, James Whitcomb [published as Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone County]. "The Old Swimmin' Hole." The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems. Indianapolis: George C. Hitt & Co., 1883, st. 5.

Current Citation

Riley, James Whitcomb. "The Old Swimmin' Hole." Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2011, st. 5.

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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Middle age The road not taken Shrinking horizons Aging

Author

Donald Justice

Source

Men at Forty

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net.

Franklin P. Adams

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Middle age Aging

Author

Franklin P. Adams

Source

Nods and Becks

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

Title of book.

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Middle age Aging

Author

Walter B. Pitkin

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Pitkin, Walter B. Life Begins at Forty. Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1932.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Stages of life Aging

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1741 1740s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1741.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1741." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Passage of time Aging Living life to the fullest Wasting time Life

Speaker

Robert Cohn

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

No man loves like him that's growing old.

Sophocles

Acrisius

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Aging

Author

Sophocles

Source

Acrisius

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

400 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Sophocles. Acrisius. 5th century BC, fragment 64.

Age will flatten a man.

No Country for Old Men

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Effects of aging Aging

Speaker

Ed Tom Bell

Actor

Tommy Lee Jones

Source

No Country for Old Men

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime thriller (film) Thriller (film) Crime thriller Thriller

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

No Country for Old Men. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Scott Rudin Productions/Mike Zoss Productions, 2007.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Passage of time Aging Missed opportunities Life

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Robert Cohn

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want, or you can just get old.

Billy Joel

Vienna

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Being assertive Aging

Speaker

Billy Joel

Source

Vienna

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Joel, Billy. "Vienna." The Stranger. Columbia Records, 1977.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall

Quoted in The Daily Telegraph

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Aging Life experience Life

Speaker

Lauren Bacall

Source

The Daily Telegraph

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Bacall, Lauren. Quoted in The Daily Telegraph. 2 Mar. 1988.

We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Brontë

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Aging Youth Impermanence Effects of time

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

We wove a web in childhood

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1835 1830s 19th century

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Brontë, Charlotte. "We wove a web in childhood." 1835.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. "From 'Retrospection.'" Brontës: Selected Poems, edited by Pamela Norris. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time

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Aging

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Umfraville

Author

Anthony Powell

Source

A Dance to the Music of Time

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings. Vol. 11, London: Heinemann, 1973, ch. 1.