#aging

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. ↗

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. ↗

#getting-old #middle-age-spread #wearing-out #age

It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they were--their fragility was irrefutable, medically proven--and yet Emily detested the inevitable rundown of accidents and tragedies, the more fortunate clucking their tongues and counting their blessings, all the while knowing it was just a matter of time. She didn't need to be reminded that she was a single misstep from disaster, especially here, without Henry, surrounded by the survivors of an earlier life. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#aging #vulnerability #age

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#believe #bulls #care #eye #health

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex. ↗

— Diana Athill

#life #sex #somewhere-towards-the-end #women #age

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #growing-older #life #living-longer #age

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #resilience #truth #age

Lines don’t make beautiful women less beautiful ↗

— Isabel Wolff

#women #age

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. ↗

— Martin Amis

#aging #life #time #age

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! ↗