Age Quote by Janet Malcolm

“The disorientation of meeting one’s sagging contemporaries, memories of a younger face crashing into the reality of jowls, under-eye pouches, unexpected lines, and then…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten people as…

— Robert Grudin

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

— George Eliot

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when,…

— Karen DeCrow

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

— Ezra Pound

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

— Herman Melville

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I…

— Erin O'Connor

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

— Diane de Poitiers

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.…

— Herman Melville

“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable…

— Erik Pevernagie