Life Quote by Bernhard Schlink

“Her old body against his old body, unbeautiful in aging. But together, they were still beautiful, somehow.”

— Lauren Groff

“Her husband closed the door on her, gently, with both hands, as if he were covering her with a blanket. He crossed in front…

— Alice McDermott

“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of us -…

— Marcel Proust

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Oh, to be old again,” said the young corpse.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Comparisons are inevitable, her face resembles her, he is like him and this old man is like that old man. This is taking things…

— Aporva Kala

“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was…

— Margaret Atwood

“[From Old Mortality ] The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.”

— Katherine Anne Porter

“The old has died Why resurrect the dead?”

— Simone Da Costa

“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart as they…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some magical reason…

— Sebastian Barry

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge