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“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't…

— Ralph Moody

“I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated.”

— Jim Butcher

“He had a frozen, wide-eyed look to his face, I remember, the way some old people do, like they are perpetually startled by the…

— Khaled Hosseini

“90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?”

— Sara Gruen

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

“One gets glimpses, even in our country, of that which is ageless--heavy thought in the face of an infant, and frolic childhood in that…

— C.S. Lewis

“mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?”

— Herman Melville

“As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over 40 had seemed to me just worn-out old wrecks, so old that there was…

— George Orwell

“I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by…

— Pete Townshend

“You know what they say: All Welshmen sing. All Scots are thrifty. All Englishmen have stiff upper lips. And all Irishmen write plays.”

— Lilian Jackson Braun

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

— George Eliot

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin