He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.
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He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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We are afraid of the old age which we may never attain.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
I'm not young. I've never had any youth.
You can be young only once, but you can be immature forever.
What refuses to die cannot be reborn.
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We'll never be as young as we are tonight.
You don't grow up, you grow old.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.
Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.
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