Quotes About Age

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he's fifty, and even then there's still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

I decided she was naive. I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

Language, like the mouths that hold and release it, is wet & living, each   word is wrinkled with age, swollen with other words, with blood, smoothed by the numberless flesh tongues that have passed across it.   Your language hangs around your neck, a noose, a heavy necklace; each word is empire, each word is vampire and mother.

A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

Excuse this digression. At my age you indulge in these apocalyptic visions. You say, The end of the world is at hand. You lie to yourself - I'm glad I won't be around to see it - when in fact you'd like nothing better, as long as you can watch it through the little secret window, as long as you won't be involved. But why bother about the end of the world? It's the end of the world every day, for someone. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman

I was tired of her getting away with being so young.

A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!

After a certain point, the ravages of experience reverse themselves; we put on innocence with advancing age, at least in the minds of others.

It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

Melanie laughed and said, "No he isn't." I decided she was naive. I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait - Estienne; C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur - Montaigne; (...) L'histoire, cette vieille dame exaltée et menteuse - de Maupassant.

the wife was as old as her own mother, almost, and women like that did not really have lives.

was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

The question at this age is what kind of dog you will shortly resemble. She will be a beagle, Prue a terrier. Pamela will be an Afghan, or something equally unearthly.

A lot of people call you a feminist painter. What indeed, I say. I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?