Middle age Quote by Matthew Mather

“Everyone in the world ages at exactly the same rate and time. We’re all getting older in unison.”

— Jarod Kintz

“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

“Why were people always driven to be something they were not, spending their early years wanting to look older and their later years striving…

— Rachel Abbott

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes twenty years seemed like an instant, and sometimes it seemed like a very long time indeed.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life…

— George Orwell

“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing…

— Halldór Laxness

“For many, the twenties seem like the time of infinite possibility, although in retrospect a woman will almost always idealize her thirties.”

— Mireille Guiliano

“Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it…

— George Eliot

“A later age looks back with nostalgia at an earlier one and depicts it in terms of ideals and activities now receding.”

— Romila Thapar