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My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth had that happened? The realization made me want to sit down on the stairs and cry. It seemed to signify something terrible about the world: something that couldn't - or mustn't- be put into words. And I could see, looking down into her startled, anxious face, that my mother felt exactly the same way. ~ John Wray
Aging quotes by John Wray
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed. ~ Alexander Pope
Aging quotes by Alexander Pope
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it. ~ Mason Cooley
Aging quotes by Mason Cooley
This is an example of what Jung called "the regressive restoration of the persona," namely, the re-identification with a former position, role, ideology because it offers a predictable content, security, and script. In the face of the new and uncertain, we often return to the old place, which is why we so often stop growing. (It has become clear to me, for example, that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency, and bitterness over lost opportunities. ~ James Hollis
Aging quotes by James Hollis
When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aging quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic. ~ Emma Straub
Aging quotes by Emma Straub
You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192) ~ Victoria Moran
Aging quotes by Victoria Moran
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. ~ Carrie Fisher
Aging quotes by Carrie Fisher
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. ~ Delta Burke
Aging quotes by Delta Burke
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. ~ R.D. Laing
Aging quotes by R.D. Laing
In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark - Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V - had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself. ~ Dan Simmons
Aging quotes by Dan Simmons
Also, I was wondering if, uh, well..." She pauses abruptly, looking between me and Abigail as if she expects us to read her mind.

"We're actually aging before your eyes," I say impatient. ~ Natalie C. Parker
Aging quotes by Natalie C. Parker
Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and he cut his upper lip as he tried to shape a mustache of blond fuzz, and when it was all over he looked the same as before, but the laborious process gave Amaranta the feeling that she had begun to grow old at that moment. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Aging quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Boys often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts twice over: first by being dead and second by being shallow shadows of actual girls, the assorted fragments of men's aging imaginations rather than the deep and dimensioned creatures that real girls are. ~ Alana Massey
Aging quotes by Alana Massey
Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span. ~ Gregory Stock
Aging quotes by Gregory Stock
The secret to battling cancer, then, is to find means to prevent these mutations from occurring in susceptible cells, or to find means to eliminate the mutated cells without compromising normal growth. The conciseness of that statement belies the enormity of the task. Malignant growth and normal growth are so genetically intertwined that unbraiding the two might be one of the most significant scientific challenges faced by our species. Cancer is built into our genomes: the genes that unmoor normal cell division are not foreign to our bodies, but rather mutated, distorted versions of the very genes that perform vital cellular functions. And cancer is imprinted in our society: as we extend our life span as a species, we inevitably unleash malignant growth (mutations in cancer genes accumulate with aging; cancer is thus intrinsically related to age). If we seek immortality, then so, too, in a rather perverse sense, does the cancer cell. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Aging quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
Aging quotes by Corrie Ten Boom
When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Aging quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh
That aging alone, so different from its more youthful sister. That
aging alone, moves with a speed meant for quantum physics, or the
blurred lines of streetlamps in misting rain. ~ Alexx Bollen
Aging quotes by Alexx Bollen
90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me? ~ Sara Gruen
Aging quotes by Sara Gruen
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aging quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
What you get is a living, what you give is a life. ~ Lillian Gish
Aging quotes by Lillian Gish
Late in life, after his mother had died, his father cried at baptisms and funerals and sappy movies on TV, age stripping away a final protective layer. Now Henry could feel the same softening taking place inside him, a helpless grief for the past and boundless pity for the world, and that was right too. No fool like an old fool. ~ Stewart O'Nan
Aging quotes by Stewart O'Nan
Our dispassionate acceptance of attrition ... [can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body. ~ Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
Aging quotes by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager. ~ Charles Durning
Aging quotes by Charles Durning
Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions. ~ Marty Rubin
Aging quotes by Marty Rubin
The question is not how many years I've lived. The question is how I lived those many years. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Aging quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough
Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like. ~ Bernard Sumner
Aging quotes by Bernard Sumner
I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again. ~ Woody Allen
Aging quotes by Woody Allen
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Aging quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos
Aging quotes by Ninon De L'Enclos
It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure. ~ Lisa J. Shultz
Aging quotes by Lisa J. Shultz
Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman. ~ Alyscia Cunningham
Aging quotes by Alyscia Cunningham
When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too. ~ Bailey White
Aging quotes by Bailey White
Complaining, whether silently or aloud, is a major man repellant. When you complain, you are arguing with what is: you're saying life is not how you think it should be. This victimizes you and creates stress and anxiety in your body. And that stress has a negative impact on your appearance: premature aging, a worsening of acne or psoriasis, and, my personal favorite, an increase in cortisol, the stress hormone that causes an increase in abdominal fat.
That being said, men are attracted to more than looks in a woman. They are attracted to the way you make them feel. Women who are complaint-free make men feel good because they themselves feel good. ~ Marie Forleo
Aging quotes by Marie Forleo
Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved. ~ Timothy Schaffert
Aging quotes by Timothy Schaffert
Lady Penelope Campion- the aging, frazzled, unsightly spinster who...
Who wasn't any of those things. Not by a mile. As fortune would have it, Lady Penelope Campion turned out to be a fair-haired, blue-eyed beauty.
In his mind's eye, he could still see her sprawled across his bed in her dressing gown. Like an all-grown-up Goldilocks, having crept into his house uninvited to test the mattress. Too soft, too hard...?
He didn't know her opinion, but Gabe's reaction was the latter. His cock was in its usual morning prime, standing at full mast. ~ Tessa Dare
Aging quotes by Tessa Dare
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Aging quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. ~ Lydia M. Child
Aging quotes by Lydia M. Child
Following his studies with Carrel, Voronoff worked in Egypt for the Egyptian king. Voronoff soon became fascinated with the eunuchs that were part of the king's harem. In particular, he noted that the castration they received seemed to increase the speed at which the eunuchs aged. This observation was the beginning of Voronoff's obsession with a surgical answer to aging. Likely inspired by the pioneering work of his mentor and the excitement of the new surgical techniques, Voronoff began to dabble in experimental transplantation. But he went beyond the techniques that his mentor had perfected. In early experiments Voronoff transplanted the testicles of a lamb into an old ram, claiming that the transplant served to thicken the ram's wool and increase its sex drive. These early studies foreshadowed the work that would follow. ~ Nathan Wolfe
Aging quotes by Nathan Wolfe
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Aging quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud. ~ Pete Townshend
Aging quotes by Pete Townshend
We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that. ~ Christopher Paolini
Aging quotes by Christopher Paolini
I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it. ~ Justine Bateman
Aging quotes by Justine Bateman
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core. ~ Kevin Brockmeier
Aging quotes by Kevin Brockmeier
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. ~ Willa Cather
Aging quotes by Willa Cather
Age and illness made one a dualist ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Aging quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code
thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come. ~ Timothy Leary
Aging quotes by Timothy Leary
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart. ~ E.B. White
Aging quotes by E.B. White
Sadly, we've all seen those who have had extensive plastic surgery as they try to run from aging, and the reality is that they often don't look younger or better. They just look like people who have had a lot of plastic surgery - without any real authenticity, ~ Robert Ohotto
Aging quotes by Robert Ohotto
Life, the permission to know death. ~ Djuna Barnes
Aging quotes by Djuna Barnes
In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions. ~ Anthony Powell
Aging quotes by Anthony Powell
He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out of the core of a man's pride, waiting to descend upon his mind and body. ~ William Sarabande
Aging quotes by William Sarabande
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ~ Fay Weldon
Aging quotes by Fay Weldon
They had all grown older, but he still did not feel he had wisdom to go with his aging. ~ Michael Ondaatje
Aging quotes by Michael Ondaatje
The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious. ~ Swami Chetanananda
Aging quotes by Swami Chetanananda
He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins. ~ Philip K. Jason
Aging quotes by Philip K. Jason
I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies. ~ Debra Winger
Aging quotes by Debra Winger
I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted) ~ Doug Jensen
Aging quotes by Doug Jensen
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~ Judith Regan
Aging quotes by Judith Regan
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. ~ George Will
Aging quotes by George Will
Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories. ~ Sarah McLachlan
Aging quotes by Sarah McLachlan
They were growing closer and closer every day, and Charlotte was finding something magical at Wildflower, something she never thought she would find again - love. ~ Lindsay Detwiler
Aging quotes by Lindsay Detwiler
Consider a mug of American coffee. It is found everywhere. It can be made by anyone. It is cheap - and refills are free. Being largely without flavor, it can be diluted to taste. What it lacks in allure it makes up in size. It is the most democratic method ever devised for introducing caffeine into human beings. Now take a cup of Italian espresso. It requires expensive equipment. Price-to-volume ratio is outrageous, suggesting indifference to the consumer and ignorance of the market. The aesthetic satisfaction accessory to the beverage far outweighs its metabolic impact. It is not a drink; it is an artifact.

This contrast can stand for the differences between America and Europe - differences nowadays asserted with increased frequency and not a little acrimony on both sides of the Atlantic. The mutual criticisms are familiar. To American commentators Europe is 'stagnant.' Its workers, employers, and regulations lack the flexibility and adaptability of their U.S. counterparts. The costs of European social welfare payments and public services are 'unsustainable.' Europe's aging and 'cossetted' populations are underproductive and self-satisfied. In a globalized world, the 'European social model' is a doomed mirage. This conclusion is typically drawn even by 'liberal' American observers, who differ from conservative (and neoconservative) critics only in deriving no pleasure from it.

To a growing number of Europeans, however, it is America that is in trouble a ~ Tony Judt
Aging quotes by Tony Judt
Jesus said, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them" (Mt 5:17). Yet Paul could say, "Christ is the end of the law" (Rom 10:4); "you also died to the law through the body of Christ" (Rom 7:4); and "Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law" (Gal 3:25). Hebrews states, "By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear" (Heb 8:13), and "The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming" (Heb 10:1). The Matthew text is the key one, for Jesus is asserting that the Torah has not been abrogated and in fact is intact in him. ~ Grant R. Osborne
Aging quotes by Grant R. Osborne
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. ~ Charles Lindbergh
Aging quotes by Charles Lindbergh
Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings. ~ Billy Graham
Aging quotes by Billy Graham
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun
And gazes around her with eyes of brightness;
Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done
She limps along in an aged whiteness ... ~ William Butler Yeats
Aging quotes by William Butler Yeats
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. ~ Gerald Brenan
Aging quotes by Gerald Brenan
Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something. ~ Diane Keaton
Aging quotes by Diane Keaton
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. ~ Liz Carpenter
Aging quotes by Liz Carpenter
Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness. ~ Lauren Groff
Aging quotes by Lauren Groff
For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury. ~ Bill Gaede
Aging quotes by Bill Gaede
I was turning into a zombie as I was aging. ~ Steven Magee
Aging quotes by Steven Magee
It's my birthday, by the way, and as of 2:05 this morning (the time of my birth in the middle of a snow storm on the Fort Dix army base in New Jersey) I'm 52 years old. I decided to say that because there's such pressure in our culture for women ... well, for everybody ... to stay perpetually young. And that's never going to change if we (women especially) don't embrace, enjoy, and take pride in each and every age that we pass through. I'm not young, I'm half a century old, and grateful to have made it this far. And I have this to say to the young women coming on behind me: 52 feels pretty damn good! ~ Terri Windling
Aging quotes by Terri Windling
A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.
As soon as he'd hit sixty he'd hold his hand out the window,
cupping it around the wind. He'd been assured
this is exactly how a woman's breast feels when you put
your hand around it and apply a little pressure. Now he knew,
and he loved it. Night after night, again and again, until
the weather grew cold and he had to roll the window up.
For many years afterwards he was perpetually attempting
to soar. One winter's night, holding his wife's breast
in his hand, he closed his eyes and wanted to weep.
He loved her, but it was the wind he imagined now.
As he grew older, he loved the word etcetera and refused
to abbreviate it. He loved sweet white butter. He often
pretended to be playing the organ. On one of his last mornings,
he noticed the shape of his face molded in the pillow.
He shook it out, but the next morning it reappeared. ~ Mary Ruefle
Aging quotes by Mary Ruefle
You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Aging quotes by Sherrilyn Kenyon
though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Aging quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Wisdom comes with winters ~ Oscar Wilde
Aging quotes by Oscar Wilde
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ~ Robert Frost
Aging quotes by Robert Frost
This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are. ~ Alice Walker
Aging quotes by Alice Walker
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. ~ Russell Baker
Aging quotes by Russell Baker
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ~ Deepak Chopra
Aging quotes by Deepak Chopra
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. ~ Nicholas Sparks
Aging quotes by Nicholas Sparks
Even when people aren't suffering from illness or aging, our unfulfilled cravings and the cessation of temporary pleasures, as well as the dissonance between our expectations and reality, lead to dukkha. ~ Sara Wilson
Aging quotes by Sara Wilson
By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating. ~ Wendy Lustbader
Aging quotes by Wendy Lustbader
I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~ George Burns
Aging quotes by George Burns
Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances. ~ Auliq Ice
Aging quotes by Auliq Ice
Don't die until you're dead. ~ Billy Connolly
Aging quotes by Billy Connolly
..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age? ~ Dick Van Dyke
Aging quotes by Dick Van Dyke
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ~ Eve Ensler
Aging quotes by Eve Ensler
They felt the poorhouse would always be there, exempt from time. That some residents died, and others came, did not occur to them; a few believed that the name of the prefect was still Mendelssohn. In a sense the poorhouse would indeed outlast their homes. The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinion and even into those of our grandfathers. ~ John Updike
Aging quotes by John Updike
Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket. ~ Dennis Vickers
Aging quotes by Dennis Vickers
Rabbit and Owl are aging bachelors whose respective megalomania and fussiness are tempered only by their mutual friendship, of which the less said, the better. ~ Frederick C. Crews
Aging quotes by Frederick C. Crews
I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back. ~ Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Aging quotes by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory. ~ Fidelis O. Mkparu
Aging quotes by Fidelis O. Mkparu
The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it. ~ Emma Thompson
Aging quotes by Emma Thompson
Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Anonymous
Aging quotes by Anonymous
Then you have this other phenomena of the paranormal romance. It's all the benefits of being a vampire without the sacrifices. By the gods, Meyer's vampires walk around sparkling in the daylight and some are vegetarians. But this phenomenon is also tied to a lot of our communal fears. Fear of aging. Fear of fading youth. Fear of loneliness. But whereas the classic motifs are more concerned with confronting and overcoming our fears, the fears of the paranormal romance genre become twisted fantasies of denial. The idea of staying young, attractive and powerful for eternity feeds into the modern self-absorbed ethos. ~ Julie Ann Dawson
Aging quotes by Julie Ann Dawson
These fragments I have shored against my ruins ~ T. S. Eliot
Aging quotes by T. S. Eliot
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