#ageing

Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming. ↗

— Richard Russo

#age

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know? ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#call #gracefully #hide #interfere #just

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#ageing #always #appeal #been #course

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #age

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#inifinity #life #old-age #age

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ageing #henry-kissinger #old-age #sources #wisdom

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friendship #age

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss. ↗

— Mark Strand

#poetry #time #age

...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#age

بومة عجوز تدلف متثاقلة لقفص وهي تشعر بالعيون تحملق فيها ↗

— Eman Herzallah

#cage #owl #age