Age Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

— Susan Sontag

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful…

— Erma Bombeck

“Mamma says she is quite certain that "how old is too old?" is not a question known to the Lord.”

— Annette Bridges

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

— Piper Laurie

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it…

— Erica Jong

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

— Minna Antrim

Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the…

— Ambrose Bierce

“She returned many years later. So much time had passed that the smell of musk in the room had blended in with the smell…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“neither is the substance nor the essence of the creation annihilated (for faithful and true is He who has established it), but “the fashion…

— The Church Fathers

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

— Cher

“What was the point of being a mind anchored to this read weight-or dying weight, that was it, a blooby mass already becoming old,…

— Daryl Gregory

For thousands of years, we have gained the power to control the world outside us but not to control the world inside. You could…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

— Poul Anderson

“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and then to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

— Andrew Davies