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“He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out of the core of a mans pride, waiting to descend upon his mind and body.”
“It must be murder to be an aging beauty, a former Tadzio, to see your future as an ignored spectator rushing up to meet you like the hard pavement. What a small sip of gall to be able to time with ...”
“..Thirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself.”
“If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.”
“Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.”
“But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body thats become the body that she ha...”
“Torka extended a conciliatory hand and laid it upon the old mans shoulder. Umak, Manaravak, Dak, and Tankh and Chuk will walk at my side. We will miss your strength, courage, and wisdom, but a man ...”
“The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in...”
“I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. ...”
“The problem with aging was not that death was near, for death was always near. The problem with aging was that a woman began to carry too many memories within her.”
“REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age,people knowyou're fat and old.”
“Philip looked incredulously at the tiny bundle in Johnnys arms. He reached out a hand tentatively, and lifted a corner of the blanket. He saw a wrinkled pink face, an open toothless mouth and a lit...”
“In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so h...”
“Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)”
“Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.”
“I'm falling into disrepair”
“In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never a...”
“She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles ...”
“Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three facesthe face they get when theyre children, the face they own when theyre grown, and the face th...”
“Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.”
