Ageing Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains…

— Michael Ondaatje

“In a man, you have to look for character and security, going beyond his age.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.”

— Stephen King

“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't…

— Ralph Moody

“I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction.”

— Blakney Francis

“Great. My life has suddenly become a young-adult novel.”

— RJ Gonzales

“when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”

— Nevada Barr

“Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Reading makes man younger forever.”

— Manisha Singh

“He couldn’t be the type of guy she probably deserved—someone her own age without baggage or complications. But he could be the man she…

— Shelly Bell

“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And…

— John Boyne