#ageing

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#obsession #age

. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#good-fortune #happiness #long-life #age

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#altering #aspect #believe #changes #forever

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process. ↗

— Demi Moore

#having #hold #i #idea #just

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#architects #cracks #frequently #houses #i

Old age...is a powerful disguise (Stella the elephant) ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#age

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #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

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#age