#aging

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#age

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#age

90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me? ↗

— Sara Gruen

#age

The older I get, the better I was. ↗

— Van Dyke Parks

#age

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#age

When I grow up I want to be an old woman. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#getting-old #getting-older #michelle-shocked #old-woman #age

I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what's happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#humor #lmao #age

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#age

October O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented haze That hangeth o'er the hollow in the wold, Where the wind-bitten ancient elms infold Grey church, long barn, orchard, and red-roofed stead, Wrought in dead days for men a long while dead. Come down, O love; may not our hands still meet, Since still we live today, forgetting June, Forgetting May, deeming October sweet? - - Oh, hearken! hearken! through the afternoon The grey tower sings a strange old tinkling tune! Sweet, sweet, and sad, the toiling year's last breath, To satiate of life, to strive with death. And we too -will it not be soft and kind, That rest from life, from patience, and from pain, That rest from bliss we know not when we find, That rest from love which ne'er the end can gain? - Hark! how the tune swells, that erewhile did wane! Look up, love! -Ah! cling close, and never move! How can I have enough of life and love? ↗

— William Morris

#bliss #life #love #october #age

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#death #getting-old #getting-older #wasting-time #age