He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.
J.G. BallardWisdom comes with winters
Oscar WildeTags: aging
When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?
Douglas CouplandAre you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah.
"Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays."
Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me.
Tags: mind brain honor aging museum
I'd Better Not--
A man leaned over to a man in a pub
And said in a voice
‘I used to be thirty seven but now I’m fifty one’.
And that’s how the years go.
In handfuls.
Like somebody is almost at the end of a bag of crisps
And they tip the bag up
And it’s as though they’re drinking crisps.
That’s how the years go.
Tags: time youth aging middle-age
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
Lynsay SandsInstead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.
Anna GodbersenYou don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
George Bernard ShawTags: aging-gracefully aging
I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.
Charles SheffieldThe youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.
Roman PayneTags: life time youth ageing aging waste growing-old payne
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