The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
My Indian name was Runs with Scissors, but eventually the tribe elders changed it to Waves at Dogs. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path,… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need. — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
