“There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.”
“You are only old once, but you can be immature forever.”
“There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.”
“I don t act my age, I act my personality.”
“Everyone dies young.”
“Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.”
“I went closer this time and touched him. He let out a deafening shriek, as if something had pierced into his heart. I held his hand and sat there, admiring the intricate network of life on them. The creases and folds in his body were testament to the cruelty that he had been subjected to in this world. The watery eyes screamed of the pain, the agonising wait to leave this godforsaken place forever, that had given him nothing but pleadings for mercy.”
“I m thirty-four. You don t look thirty-four. That s because I m not married. Mae s smile felt as if it were set in concrete. Marriage tends to age a woman.”
“You can only be twice someone’s age once.”
“...A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder that you can never, ever go back to any one moment again- that you are always changing, hour by hour, cell by cell, in tiny fragments that build skyscrapers overnight.”
“Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.”
“Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.”
“Your not old you are like wine, you get better over time. -Melissa Mona”
“Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
“Two or three years from now thirty won t look so senile.”
“As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.”
“The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”