I like to fantasize about how far I’ll have come in a year. A year from now, I’ll be 12 months further than where I am today. And the most impressive part is I don’t...

Most people live life backwards. They party and kill time in their youth, when they’re strong and have the energy to accomplish great things. And then they’re older, they try to get things done, but...

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too...

I don’t want to ever see her again, because I want to always remember her as she was—young and beautiful. She won’t remember, because she was 88 when we met and suffering from dementia.

A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn’t have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don’t let it make you bitter....

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.

Everyone dies young.

As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are...

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility...

Me dad planted that tree,’ she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window.The great beech filled at least half the sky and shook shadows all over the house.Its roots clutched the slope like...

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Sex in the twenties is like a helicopter raring to take off vertically, but twenty years later, it is like a vintage plane roaring and racing to a reluctant take off!

She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.

We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a specially dangerous time for women. They have outlived the shyness and restraints of...

Because inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

Time change – Moments don’t.

It really doesn’t bother me,” she said. “I’ve always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.

I’m too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review ‘the chronicles of wasted...

…the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no longer be discerned which was coming and which going, which following and which...

I’m 32 years old and I’m tired. It’s because I haven’t drank enough coffee. If I had, I’d probably only be 29.

I met a girl today, and she wants to go out tonight. I’m like, What’s the rush? I’m thirty years old, and fate has made me wait three decades to meet you, so what’s another...

Even when we’re old, I’ll still look at you with the same eyes. (Who else’s eyes am I going to look at you with?) My love for you is Louis Braillesque.

I saw an old guy sleeping, and I thought he was dead. But I kept checking his pockets for money, because it seemed like the right thing to do.

NW” is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia — for old movies, old songs, buses they don’t ride anymore — is less a salve than...

Leeftijd is een kwestie van fysiologie en psychologie en heeft niets te maken met de kalender

But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan’s truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the...

In my dreams, I never have an age.

William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I...

And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye,...

It’s strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won’t come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

Result of HARDWORK Is Neither Friends Nor Enemy,To the AGE Of the ACHIEVER!

It’s my birthday, by the way, and as of 2:05 this morning (the time of my birth in the middle of a snow storm on the Fort Dix army base in New Jersey) I’m 52...

As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.

The only principle of Success in Life :”You must be present to win.

My age and the ages of my children are imaginary numbers.

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

One grey hair appeared on my headI plucked it out with my hand.It answered me: “You have prevailed against me alone -What will you do when my army comes after me?”- Yehuda Halevi

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die… I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we...

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.

Perhaps I’d been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don’t have to comply with a request just because it’s reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the...

The best thing to do with a seven-year-old is wait until they’re eight to tell them to wait until they’re 18 to start living life.

One bad habit people do way past the age they should be doing it is living. The youth of today, they’re so old.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

My father inherited my old looks.

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.