Aging Quote by Charles Sheffield

“Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable.”

— William Norwich

“Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.”

— Erika Lopez

“I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains…

— Michael Ondaatje

“I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.”

— Jean Guéhenno

“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.”

— Mercedes Lackey

“grew older with some trouble face it and then you become wiser.”

— Rahne Putri

“Your not old you are like wine, you get better over time." -Melissa Mona”

— Haileigh Horton

“Already she feels jaded. Weary, and gladly tired and old.”

— Sylvia Plath

“I'm old, sick, tired, disillusioned, harassed, slandered, and unappreciated.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The old woman nods and settles back in her chair. She seems to approve. Molly feels some of the tension leave her shoulders. “Excuse…

— Christina Baker Kline

“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