Ageing Quote by Barbara Pym

“If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was not an…

— Barbara Pym

“When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it’s a privileged denied to many.'…

— Dan Pearce

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Society tended to dismiss and ignore older women. Big mistake. Never underestimate a woman due to her age. Every word made me love and…

— HelenKay Dimon

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She felt that if she had to spend another year of interesting, congenial work during the days, and sensitive, cultured, intelligent talk in the…

— Stella Gibbons

“At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if…

— Dean Koontz

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her…

— Zen Cho

“It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to show for…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

“The progress of her aging seemed to occur in fits and starts, not so much a matter of physical growth as a deepening self-possession,…

— Justin Cronin

“And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider things like…

— Haruki Murakami