"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
― C. S. Lewis
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Age
― C. S. Lewis
More From C. S. Lewis
- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
- "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
- "Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
More In Age
- "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."― Andrew Carnegie
- "I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can’t imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I’ve got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged."― Elisabeth Shue
- "Many great actions are committed in small struggles."― Victor Hugo