#les

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#father #fathers #fathers-and-daughters #growing-up #life

One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets ↗

— Bob Smith

#birthday-suit #wrinkles #age

She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#age

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. ↗

— Lesley Pearse

#georgia #lesley #old #pearse #suffering

Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing! ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#stanislaw-lem #the-cyberiad #age

You are too alive to bury yourself at this age, Jade. Don't do it - it won't work anyway. ↗

— Lada Ray

#life-lessons #age

Do not wait not for old age to wake you up to the true value of each moment. ↗

— Martin Suarez

#awake #enlightenment #life-lessons #old-age #value-of-life

... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again. ↗

— Philip Roth

#old-age #wholeness #age

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it. ↗

— Stephen King

#mr-jingles #old-people #sex #age

Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy"~ Herr Doktor Pavel ↗

— K.W. Jeter

#age