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.

Il s’étonna de réfléchir sur des problèmes qu’il ne s’était jamais posés. Et pourtant revenait contre lui, avec un murmure mélancolique, la masse des douceurs qu’il avait toujours écartées: un océan perdu. “Tout cela est...

… but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about...

My wife is younger. At one point, I was twice her age. Of course, I was six at the time.

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

Age is just a number. So is my area code.

“Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, “We must know, we shall know!”, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

…all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine...

Ce matin, l’idée m’est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon me, n’est qu’un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son...

It’s all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it’s all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as...

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with...

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering...

I am proud of my gray hair because I have earned every single one.

“In youth,” he said, speaking as if from a great distance, “we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe,...