A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?
Fernando PessoaTags: experience growing-older
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelTags: growing-older
I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.
Jeff LindsayTags: growing-older
Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter
Hermann HesseTags: youth growing-older
Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
Michael Marshall SmithTags: friends nostalgia growing-older
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.
Tags: growing-up man youth childhood growing-older child adult painted-shell
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
Colum McCannTags: death growing-older problems endings aging living-life
Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.
Jaffe CohenTags: growing-older mid-life-crisis
And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.
James Lee BurkeTags: growing-older aging passage-of-time tempus-fugit
Funny how at twenty-five you worry about not being taken seriously and take being a sex object for granted. Later you take being taken seriously for granted, and worry about not being a sex object.
Helen FieldingTags: growing-older sex-object
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