#aging

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#aging #life #time #age

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love #lust #age

Everyday is one less day. ↗

— Tom Ford

#life #time #age

I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into that of a woman on her wedding day, righting her veil. And how, when that bride blinks, she reopens her eyes to see a frazzled young mother trying to get lipstick on straight for the parent/teacher conference that starts in three minutes. And how after that young woman bends down to retrieve the wild-haired doll her daughter has left on the bathroom floor, she rises up to a forty-seven-year-old, looking into the mirror to count age spots. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#daughters #mothers #age

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#dead #death #life #living #age

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you. ↗

— Burton Cummings

#album #because #been #bootleg #bother

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#application #reading #younger #age

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dying #handicaps #age

At eighty things do not occur; they recur. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#eighty #age

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty. ↗

— John Lanchester

#denial #age