866 quotes found
“Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.”
“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.”
“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertipsher hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
“It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.”
“Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.”
“Know this. That the things that go into the fire are forever changed. That all you have ever done can be measured not by distance but by circumference. That these twin spirals of smoke; they are yo...”
“You pass as a guy; I, as pregnant. Our waiter cheerfully tells us about his family, expresses delight in ours. On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more and more male...”
“The mental pictures I have of my parents and grandparents and my childhood are beginning to break up into small fragments and get blown away from me into empty space, and the same wind is sucking m...”
“Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what ...”
“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
“I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never compl...”
“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limb...”
“Wisdom comes with winters”
“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you tha...”
“I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.”
“It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.”
“Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”
“Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every daywhile I am standing still. I prefer th...”
“Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.”
