The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Max Lerner I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.Wendy Cope I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Alan Bleasdale Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Edward Hoagland Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight & undeflected my bolts whatever they are. Virginia Woolf When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. Joyce Carol Oates "Except ye become as little children," except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward- looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. Dorothy L. Sayers I think middle- age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. W. R. Inge The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. T. S. Eliot By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. Clifton Fadiman

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