Aging Quotes
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![Lauren Groff](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330389831i/690619._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
![John Scalzi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1724435824i/4763._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”
― Old Man's War
― Old Man's War
![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly reproduced "beautiful" images? Though unconscious personal anxieties can be a powerful force in the creation of a vital lie, economic necessity practically guarantees it. An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that "justify" the institution of slavery. Western economies are absolutely dependent now on the continued underpayment of women. An idealogy that makes women feel "worth less" was urgently needed to counteract the way feminism had begun to make us feel worth more. This does not require a conspiracy; merely an atmosphere. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
![Elisabeth Elliot](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200336337i/6264._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”
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![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“LADY BRACKNELL
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
![Jennifer Egan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1676045682i/49625._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
![Ashton Applewhite](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1451745889i/236080._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us.”
― This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
― This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
![Donna Lynn Hope](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391546355i/6950880._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apart from growing old; it comes to us all. Youth passes from everyone, so why deny it? I'm proud of my age. I'm proud that I've survived this planet for as long as I have, and should I end up withered, wrinkled and with a lifetime of great wisdom, I'll trade the few years of youth for the sophistication of a great mind...for however long it lasts.”
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![Richard Bach](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1420982726i/16904._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“If we don't accept any common beliefs, we can't exist in spacetime. But when we don't believe in age, at least we don't have to die because our numbers change. [...] When you don't believe in birthdays, the idea of aging turns a little foreign to you. You don't fall into trauma over your sixteenth birthday or your thirtieth or the big Five-Oh or the deadly Century. You measure your life by what you learn, not by counting how many calendars you've seen. If you're going to have trauma, better it be the shock of discovering the fundamental principle of the universe that some date predictable as next July.”
― Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
― Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
![Michael Lewis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1317447168i/776._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
![China Miéville](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1243988363i/33918._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”
― Embassytown
― Embassytown
![Wallace Stegner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1252177524i/157779._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.”
― The Spectator Bird
― The Spectator Bird
![Muriel Barbery](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1262638110i/643126._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about (so it is to retirement homes that they entrust the care of accompanying their parents to the threshold, with no fuss or bother). And where's the joy in these final hours they ought to be making the most of? They're spent in boredom and bitterness, endlessly revisiting memories. We mustn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
![Donald Hall](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1210177955i/73432.jpg)
“[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people are a separate form of life. They have green skin, with two heads that sprout antennae. They can be pleasant, they can be annoying--in the supermarket, these old ladies won't get out of my way--but most important they are permanently other. When we turn eighty, we understand that we are extraterrestrial. If we forget for a moment that we are old, we are reminded when we try to stand up, or when we encounter someone young, who appears to observe green skin, extra heads, and protuberances.”
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![Naomi Wolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1604650292i/22393._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines.
The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.”
― The Beauty Myth
The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.”
― The Beauty Myth
![Sherman Alexie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1333515890i/4174._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg)
“More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
![Mary Ruefle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1250203628i/282933.jpg)
“Attempting to Soar"
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.”
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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.”
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![Bob Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519807788i/5199358._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets”
― Remembrance of Things I Forgot
― Remembrance of Things I Forgot
![Ann Packer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1425763810i/9915._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.”
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![Donna Lynn Hope](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391546355i/6950880._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.”
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“The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.”
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![Diana Athill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1420318090i/25023._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.”
― Somewhere Towards the End
― Somewhere Towards the End
“I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth and the reproductive process in which the genes are transmitted to the next generation. Once past the reproductive stage, the individual has served the purposes of preservation of the species, and then he is on his own. The wrinkled human face is the victim of gravity and of cumulative errors in the reproduction of cells. Since aging is not programed, but is a badly improvised interference with youthful beauty, we have improvised an operation to counteract its effects. Aging is a form of misinformation. If we get the facts right, you will be able to read it in our faces. ("Motherhood")”
― Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka
― Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka
![Donna Lynn Hope](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391546355i/6950880._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what's happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye.”
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“These were young people having their fun. Old age comes quickly. If you don’t enjoy life at that time, you will never get another chance. At our age you only get afflictions.”
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“I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.”
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“The woman who undergoes this operation can sense the morphogenetic field at work in her face. She can feel the lines of force as they guide the embryonic cells into the patterns they must form. Why should a woman let her life be determined by tired collagens or by a shortage of zinc which weakens her electromagnetic field, the matrix of life? The goal of life is living. Life is a field of opportunity, guiding the individual forward along paths created by the meshed forces or objective possibilities as they interweave with a person's own potentialities. And this philosophy of life is now bodied forth in the faces of beautiful women. ("Motherhood”
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![Linda Robinson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1700255036i/3014826._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.”
― Chantepleure
― Chantepleure
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