I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.
Ray BradburyStichwörter: life death change aging maturing
To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: old-age aging flattery compliment self-consciousness wrinkles
Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: old-age aging disability
The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: wisdom old-age intellect aging wrinkles
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: humor age cynicism aging
We had a good marriage," he said. "I just thought it would be so much longer." Then he shrugged, and coughed away a sob, this thin man in his sixties with the soft androgynous face that aging seemed to bring, as though all the hormones were finally mixed up in a big coed pot because it just didn't matter anymore.
Meg WolitzerStichwörter: aging
Jules told them, "I used to be a camper here myself," but she was confronted with a squeal of feedback, and even when she repeated her words, she saw that it didn't matter to them that she, a middled-aged woman with a sweater draped over her T-shirt and the kind of softened, undefined features that their mothers shared, had once been a camper here. They didn't care, or even really believe it. Because if they did believe it, then they would have had to think that one day they too would become softened and undefined.
Meg WolitzerStichwörter: aging middle-age
Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump of middle age, heading rapidly toward those year that no one like to speak of. The best parts had already passed for people Jonah's age. By now you were meant to have become what you would finally be, and to gracefully and unobtrusively stay in that state for the rest of your life.
Meg WolitzerStichwörter: aging middle-age
For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I'd experienced before, then I'd be able to understand it more clearly, but this is the first time, so I can't. For now all I can do is put off making any detailed judgments and accept things as they are. Just like I accept the sky, the clouds, and the river. And there's also something kind of comical about it all, something you don't want to discard completely.
Haruki MurakamiStichwörter: life growing-up acceptance old aging
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
Paul KroppStichwörter: reading growing-up children aging reading-books
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