Quotes About Age

All'improvviso mi sembra che una delle differenze tra la gioventù è la vecchiaia potrebbe essere questa: da giovani, ci inventiamo un futuro diverso per noi stessi; da vecchi, un passato diverso per gli altri. da Il senso di una fine

Wilde also established another prime rule of fame in the modern age: that there is no such thing as bad publicity, there is only publicity. Success is better measured in column inches than by what those columns contain.

Strange how, when you are young, you owe no duty to the future; but when you are old, you owe a duty to the past. To the one thing you can't change.

We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

I don't envy the young. In my days of adolescent rage and insolence, I would ask myself: What are the old for, if not to envy the young? That seemed to me their principal and final purpose before extinction.

Yes, she is older; yes, she knows more about the world. But in terms of—what shall I call it? the age of her spirit, perhaps—we aren't that far apart.

His life had not been wrecked. His heart, yes, his heart had been cauterised. But he had found a way to live, and continued with that life, which had brought him to here. And from here, he had a duty to see himself as he had once been. Strange how, when you are young, you owe no duty to the future; but when you are old, you owe a duty to the past. To the one thing you can't change.

The young fought sleep, she thought, but the old relished it, and at the moment, she felt absolutely ancient.

She drooled on his neck. The groom didn't find out her true age until the barrister began the reading of the conditions for their union. His bride was four years old.

She wore her age the way Diane Keaton did—as if she came from a distant planet where a beautiful older woman was as much prized as a beautiful older table.

The conveniences of modern culture cater exclusively to youth, and that the times grow increasingly inconsiderate of old people

According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her husband.

Fallowing the custom, my great-grandfather was married young, at fourteen, to a woman six years his senior. It was considered one of the duties of a wife to help bring up her husband.

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If she were still alive, she would be forty-five this year.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

older and she always got to drive. She opened

but the emergency room was a young person's game, the sort of place you ran screaming from before you hit your thirties.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful." Claire

closer she got to forty, the more annoyed she was by people in their twenties.

Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.