Synonyms for old-age
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1. List of paraphrases for "old-age":

   retirement, elderly, ageing, older

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1. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello:

   Public knowledge about spousal loss in old age has in general a negative connotation -- bereavement is usually seen as an individual issue, however bereaved individuals vary considerably in their reactions to loss, and little is known on how the historical context contributes to adaptation to spousal loss.

2. C. C. Colton:

   How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

3. Joe Gores:

   Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

4. Miguel de Unamuno:

   A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

5. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   There are in existence two periods when we shrink from any great vicissitude—early youth and old age. In the middle of life, we are indifferent to change ; for we have discovered that nothing is, in the end, so good or so bad as it at first appeared.