Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or...
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what's happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye.
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.
Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.
Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
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 beauties...
The mental pictures I have of my parents and grandparents and my childhood are beginning to break up into small fragments and get blown away from me into empty space, and the same wind is sucking me t...
You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone...
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache fo...
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
You are young, said my father. You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day.You'll get older, said my mother, that's what happens.Then what happens?You won't be able to find the...
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.