Age Quote by Emma Straub

“It occurred to her then that there was a reason age stripped you of all the things you enjoyed or took for granted. It…

— Laura McHugh

“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

“She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have…

— Jenny Downham

“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying…

— C.S. Lewis

“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

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

— D.H. Lawrence

“... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill…

— Alice Hoffman

“It seemed to her that the real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old.”

— James S.A. Corey

“... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that…

— Kristin Hannah

“She doesn’t want him to continue ageing in front of her, for she is afraid of what it will require from her. As he…

— Catriona Ross

“Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!”

— Théophile Thoré

“even if I could go back in time to her as me, the age I am now she would never come into my arms…

— Marie Howe