#you

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#gender #womanhood #women #youth #age

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. ↗

— Megan Chance

#old #women #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

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! ↗

— Théophile Thoré

#carpe-diem #inspiration #regret #youth #age

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#age

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth. ↗

— China Miéville

#youth #age

It occured to me that we will never be young again. ↗

— Anthony Swofford

#age

I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A wondering about where the old me had gone to. It was like I had suddenly been taken over by someone else and they could see the old me had fallen away for good. ↗

— Kerem Mermutlu

#teen #young-adult-fiction #age

When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#age

To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#age