866 quotes found
“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.”
“...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.”
“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.”
“They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.”
“I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?" Responding to his softened manner, Mr. Lorry answered: "T...”
“I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth and the reproductive process in which the genes ...”
“In good truth he had started in London with some vague idea that as his life in it would not be of long continuance, the pace at which he elected to travel would be of little consequence; but the y...”
“The woman who undergoes this operation can sense the morphogenetic field at work in her face. She can feel the lines of force as they guide the embryonic cells into the patterns they must form. Why...”
“One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”
“this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing”
“The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.”
“The problem, Paulinus, is not that we have a short life, but that we waste time. Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well. But when ti...”
“When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking sti...”
“I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)”
“A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didnt. (356)”
“How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost without my realizing it...”
“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.”
“Hi, Jake said. I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then. I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.”
“It's finished. Everything went past, without me.”
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
