... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
Philip RothTags: old-age helplessness wholeness
Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.
Meghna PantTags: inspirational death despair loneliness old-age
Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers to whom age was its own embellishment. The grandmothers of those days dressed for the part in that curious but endearing uniform which is now known to us only through music-hall. And our two old neighbours, when setting forth on errands, always prepared themselves scrupulously so. They wore high laced boots and long muslin dresses, beaded chokers and candlewick shawls, crowned by tall poke bonnets tied with trailing ribbons and smothered with inky sequins. They looked like starlings, flecked with jet, and they walked in a tinkle of darkness.
Those severe and similar old bodies enthralled me when they dressed that way. When I finally became King (I used to think) I would command a parade of grandmas, and drill them, and march them up and down - rank upon rank of hobbling boots, nodding bonnets, flying shawls, and furious chewing faces. They would be gathered from all the towns and villages and brought to my palace in wagon-loads. No more than a monarch’s whim, of course, like eating cocoa or drinking jellies; but far more spectacular any day than those usual trudging guardsmen.
Look at this fog. The damp gets right into your bones. It's doing my chest no good at all. I'll need a vapour bath." Bryant pulled down his scarf and peered over the sodden hedge. Dew had formed on his bald head and ears. He resembled a minor Tolkien character.
"You're getting old before your time," warned May. "I can't imagine what you'll look like in your eighties."
"I'm ageing gracefully, which means not trying to look like a member of Concrete Blimp."
"I assume you mean Led Zeppelin...
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?
Stanley Victor PaskavichTags: life reality death death-and-dying old-age
In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: women self-esteem worry old-age looks aging passage-of-time breasts self-consciousness females self-conscious
I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people’s minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.
Christopher HawkeTags: dreams relationships denial old-age
Брехня, що світ належить молодим! Це лише так здається перші тридцять років, доки ти летиш згори вниз, мов на авто, і нічого не встигаєш, бо немає коли натиснути на гальма. Летиш, в принципі, назустріч своїй старості.
Irene RozdobudkoTags: old-age iren-rozdobudko
Старість це «два в одному»: можна бути дитиною і дорослим водночас. Однією ногою стояти в колисці, іншою самі знаєте де…
Irene RozdobudkoTags: old-age iren-rozdobudko
We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: youth television old-age politicians
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