Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“beard framing a face that had started to show his age, weathered and lined from years”

— Richard Allibone

“Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?”

— Jeane Westin

“mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?”

— Herman Melville

“When a woman turns forty she is no longer young, but not yet old.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“She looked old, felt young, was neither.”

— Joseph Fink

“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was…

— Margaret Atwood

“Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past.”

— Lauren Oliver

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

“now? When she looked at herself she saw her outside changing, growing older, while inside she still felt young. Aging was a strange thing—made…

— Debbie Macomber

“There is a look in his eye, a heavy look that makes him seem older, as though in one night he has lived one…

— Lisa Ann Sandell

“Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who…

— Mary Oliver

“I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that…

— J. Nozipo Maraire