“You wait 'til you're my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with… — Chris Jirika Copy Share Image
“I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose… — Lorena McCourtney Copy Share Image
“White hair. She remembers one of her bosses, a middle-aged man who used to say how he longed to see a former… — Han Kang Copy Share Image
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as… — Maija Haavisto Copy Share Image
“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I never had time to do anything for myself. I've always had to subordinate my energy and time to the demands of… — Sophia Tolstaya Copy Share Image
People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Taura would have been dead of old age at twenty-standard without the medical intervention that the Dendarii medics and later the Duronas… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I have lost years that I will never get back. Only now am I just beginning to live, on the verge of… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
“Given that there is every indication I’ll be checking the single box on all official forms from now until I’m dead, hopefully… — Lindsey Stuffel Copy Share Image
Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52. — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
