“It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication. Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging.”— Red Hot Chili Peppers, open.spotify.com
“The older you get, the more standards you'll have. This is not a bad thing because anyone you allow into your space will have a HUGE effect on your path.”— BRI STEVES, twitter.com
“Shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Frances: 'Do I look old to you?' Benji: 'No. Yes.' Frances: 'How old?' Benji: 'Older than I am.' Frances: 'Older than 27?' Benji: 'No. 27 is old, though.'”— Greta Gerwig, Michael Zegen, Frances, Benji, amazon.com
“I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“We’re going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“When I turn 24, I’m going to try to remain calm. It’s just a number after all. I’m not going to do things just because I feel pressured to. I’m not going to go after things that I do not want. I’m not going to do what other people think I should be doing. And I’m going to try not to feel like I’m fa…”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“She really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses, than tore at my very heart.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“As you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends--hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“The saddest realization I’ve had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“Don’t be so anxious to grow old. One day you’ll realize you can’t grow young and you’ll not only be anxious, but sad.”— Kaitlyn Wylde, amazon.com
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”— Anthony Powell, amazon.com
“Someone plays a chord. The choirmaster says, ‘Yes. But remember, old men lie awake at night. Have pity, for whether or not the aches and pains they feel are true, we must be patient with them. Because someday that old man will be you.'”— Sara Houhteling, narrativemagazine.com
“When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.”— Jeff Bezos, businessinsider.com
“When I was seventeen, I used to write on average two poems a day, each of them taking me about twenty minutes. Their quality was doubtful, but I didn’t even try to write better then, thinking that I was performing little miracles and that over miracles I didn’t need to think. Now I know that, indeed…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Her face was like a child's, not yet touched by the shadow of family deaths. Behind her there was a white, Spanish-looking building, large, spear-shaped fronds, and a wide, bright expanse of water. Sunlight fell everywhere, not least (one felt) in the young woman's heart. He had never seen anyone mo…”— John Gardner, amazon.com