866 quotes found
“Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.”
“I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks”
“Aging offers certain rewards that youth cannot. It represents the culmination of our efforts in building self-knowledge, families, friendships, careers, and the sense of self that comes from facing...”
“Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano Jos, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackh...”
“My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears at the banter of eighteen-year-olds on the street. It frankly exa...”
“Nature felt no change, and was ever young.”
“Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty.”
“My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?”
“Throughout their lifetime, most women learn to be uncomfortable with their physical appearance. They create amask of makeup that is intended to fix their imperfections. They identify so much with t...”
“The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.”
“The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store for her and which she feared would be her own mothers”
“It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place...”
“So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had be...”
“Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed.”
“You know, you the worst kind, you want to marry the artist and live like squalor, but you wait, in five years you be like, Baby Jake why we eat ramen noodles every night? You a hustler, don't blind...”
“After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. ...”
“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body.life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.”
“Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could hav...”
“Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...”
“Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...”
