Ronald Blythe Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Ronald Blythe:

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
~Ronald Blythe


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ronald-blythe-quotes/#c9c4f464

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
~Ronald Blythe


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ronald-blythe-quotes/#b72d9b2b

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
~Ronald Blythe


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ronald-blythe-quotes/#72682006

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.
~Ronald Blythe


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ronald-blythe-quotes/#a254b48f

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
~Ronald Blythe


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ronald-blythe-quotes/#fbf785f1

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