Aged

Famous quotes containing the word aged:

“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“The hare grows old as she plays in the sun
And gazes around her with eyes of brightness;
Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done
She limps along in an aged whiteness....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)