#ageing

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#inifinity #life #old-age #age

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friendship #age

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss. ↗

— Mark Strand

#poetry #time #age

...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

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest [hu]man has learned anything of absolute value by living. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#ageing #learning #youth #age