As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

Though I should have known better, I had to ask. “What is furniture disease?” She looked at me like I had the IQ of a grape. “It’s when your chest falls into your drawers. Get...

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

I went closer this time and touched him. He let out a deafening shriek, as if something had pierced into his heart. I held his hand and sat there, admiring the intricate network of life...

Some women I talk to are so frightened of growing old. I sense their desperation. They say things like I m not going to live to be old I m not going to live to...

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again—I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter…

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

It’s a comforting thought knowing that no matter how old I get, I can always get older.

I write love quotes for all ages—Teenagers, Young Adults, and even the Middle Ages—like between the years of 1200-1700. Erasmus loves my work. Well, probably he does, but as he’s dead you really can’t prove...

The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

I’m older now, which I can’t help, but I’m also fatter, thanks to all the extra helpings.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today...

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern...

I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own – how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

Rather I think that a man who … is willing … to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to...

The thing about the old is that we never change so much as the young. We slip in degrees, adding rings like trees–a new wrinkle here, a shade less color there, but the young transform...

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

Do not be too sure, young fellows,That you are better than your ancestors.

And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer’s had brought out her...

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.

Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.

When I was young, I was 13 going on 31. Then when I was 30 going on 31, I was 30 going on 29. Now I’m in love and I’ve lost all sense of time—and...

I’m 60-years-old. -Ma’am, I don’t believe it. -You’re too kind. -It’s true. You look at least 75.

The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to the bathroom. But knock first, because I think grandpa’s in there.

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it…

If youth was sold in a bottle of hair dye, we would all get in line.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

The death of a parent, he wrote, ‘despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we...

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.

Twenty-three is old. It’s almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

People forget that old women were young once, but d’you think we old women forget? In my heart, I’m still thirty.

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

I don’t ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Age doesn’t matter: an open mind does.