Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

You are old and grey, she teased. And you're never too immortal for a spanking, he shot back...

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Even now, every job I get, I worry that it will be my last. I think becoming a washed-up hag is sort of my destiny. So if you see a wrinkled old bitch wearing a tattered fur and chain-smoking in an...

"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...

Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When Liza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her...

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been...

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

Women not only bear the burden of societal expectations surrounding beauty and youth, but they also perpetuate these standards themselves—every time we dye our hair to hide gray or downplay our age,...

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which...

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

He often found himself watching the old ladies crossing the city streets with a sluggish step, where the bus threatened, and knew that inside these shriveled bodies, radiant faces of adolescents...

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It...

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.

He was a worn-out old man whose eyes had quit caring about anything but the odds on three-year-olds.

But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment,...

Like many men, by then my father was beginning to suspect that he stopped being a young man, and he often revisited the scenes of his early youth, looking for answers to questions he still didn't...

There was something to be said for dying before you ended up in incontinence pads, watching an endless loop of reruns of Friends.

Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man anymore and they are waiting for him to die. But he don't want to die. He wants to keep on living...

Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose.

Youth is the hardest time in life. One seldom hears of an old person committing suicide.

The second rule states that perfume lives with time; it has stages of youth, maturity, and old age. Only when it surpasses these different stages while maintaining the same fragrance intensity does it...

... a man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude - 205

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape...

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.