Tenderness Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“I'm a year older than 365 days ago, and I'm having trouble bending my knees and my lower back is killing me. Everything reminds…

— Jarod Kintz

“Aging Poem I can live with my arthritis, And my dentures fit me fine. I can see with my bifocals, But I sure do…

— Michael Hodgin

“Old age can be a deceiver. My knees ache when I walk, but if I sit still, I do not feel so different from…

— Phyllis T. Smith

“Your personal history of pain, by the time you reached the age of forty, was supposedto have been folded thoroughly into the batter of…

— Meg Wolitzer

“It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until…

— Geraldine Brooks

“... you may whisper a word or two to God on my behalf at Matins and Lauds, if you’ll be so kind. If he…

— Ellis Peters

“He could hear his knees crack, and it made him feel old. You had to live so terribly long to actually be old, but…

— Jennifer Dubois

“And when the years have passed, and we have watched a thousand sunsets, and we are bent, our bodies crooked with age ask me…

— Kennedy Ryan

“I hadn’t realized that a break in a bone could be so exquisitely painful. I’d feel a greater tolerance for the the wounded after…

— Charles Todd

“Drawing up my knees, I fold in on myself. I want to make myself as small as possible. Perhaps this nonsensical pain will be…

— E.L. James

“We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls…

— Mary Balogh

“When his hand came down across my bottom the first time I thought I was going to die. But the pain passed, transmuted as…

— Chloe Thurlow