866 quotes found
“Books arent eggs, you know. Simply because a book has aged a bit doesnt mean its gone bad. There was now an edge to Monsieur Perdus voice too. What is wrong with old? Age isnt a disease. We all gro...”
“For after all we make our faces as we go along...”
“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”
“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned int...”
“It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collap...”
“But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.”
“But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and something solid to call my own at least until I got tired of it. There was a...”
“Today I am 65 years old. I still look good. I appreciate and enjoy my age. A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matte...”
“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after anotherit's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”
“She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a li...”
“Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all...”
“OctoberO love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old,A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented hazeThat hangeth o'er the hollow in the wold,Where the wind-bitten...”
“That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.”
“You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and...”
“I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set ...”
“I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm ...”
“There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.”
“My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a whole lot of other people who suck at math as bad as I do. No. Fift...”
“Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.”
“Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.”
