#ageing

...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#age

بومة عجوز تدلف متثاقلة لقفص وهي تشعر بالعيون تحملق فيها ↗

— Eman Herzallah

#cage #owl #age

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #youth #age

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#ageing #colour #excitement #perspective #youth

You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio. ↗

— Hayley Linfield

#ageing #age

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#ageing #fathers #robert-mccrum #weirdness #age

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#death #poetry #age

I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#age

You're never too old to be young. ↗

— Paul Palnik

#life-philosophy #youth #age

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then...thinking there was a big ol' world out there to conquer. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#memory #past #remembrance #age