Ageing Quote by Barbara Pym

“Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from…

— Barbara Pym

“If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.”

— Bauvard

“But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day’s living mixed with something more secret…

— Virginia Woolf

“She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women,"…

— Tana French

“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to…

— David Dabydeen

“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

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing…

— Daniel Alarcón

“In college, 29 had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“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

“Faced with the daunting prospect of a party at which both my ex-husband and my ex-lover would be present with their much younger fiancées,…

— Linda Gillard