Julian Barnes Quote

Capture your youth, while you can.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?

You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?

When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightni...

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age

I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our exis...

It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.

Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fights