One of the odd things about middle age…was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.

The surgeons’ market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women’s faces or bodies that social change won’t cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

Depression is a red herring,” said Nariman. “I think a lot about the past, it’s true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much...

Let me tell you something, honey. When your boobs fall south and that pretty skin of yours looks like you’ve been tanning in a nuclear war zone, you’ll see what I mean about independence. When...

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

Die Jahre, die man auf dem Buckel hatte, waren zu nichts mehr nutze: Man brauchte sie ungelebt, einen ganzen Vorrat davon. Denn je älter man wurde, desto mehr Dinge gingen zu Bruch.

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

Og engang skal hver eneste mann på jord erkjenne, at det var i ungdommen han kunne gjort alt, men ikke gjorde det. Engang skal han erkjenne den bitreste av alle sannheter: at livet ikke kan...

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...

I’m willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it.

Everyone in the world ages at exactly the same rate and time. We’re all getting older in unison.

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a...

Youth. I don’t seek it through another because I have it within; it’s a state of mind, a spirit that is free, and a mind that is playful. The shell of my being is altered...

You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones… basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup)....

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again – the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and...

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.

Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the dream she was selling me: a life of destiny and fate; as my...

Rich said, “As your get older, feelings are harder to come by.” It was so simple and poignant.

At some point, you’re no longer growing up, you’re aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can’t reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to...

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

I want to live for a very, very long time, but it’s important that I take care of my body. When I am 851 years old, I don’t want to look it. No, I want...

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age … pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don’t want to be who they are...

Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

…her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or...

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli’s view]

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it....

How much longer would we go on being old young people? They wavedgoodbye to me. I was moved by Annette. She and I wereexactly the same age, and she’d become one of those slightlyfaded Danish...

America isn’t breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn’t dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn’t triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren’t at each other’s throats. They’re living more interdependently...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will...

To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and...

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It’s furrow,...

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

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

I’d Better Not–A man leaned over to a man in a pubAnd said in a voice‘I used to be thirty seven but now I’m fifty one’.And that’s how the years go.In handfuls.Like somebody is almost...

If I aged twice as fast and lived twice as long as a normal person, would I be Wisdom Man?

Life goes on and on after one’s luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so...

The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

… we absolutely mustn’t forget it. We mustn’t forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don’t want to think about (so it is...

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.