“'Tis one of the many privileges of the old, to see the world about them always young and full of children.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“If you think you look old in a Photo you just took, consider instead that you will never again be that young.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.”— Lady Bird Johnson, izquotes.com
“Bodies aren’t meant to stay the same. We are supposed to grow and change. We shouldn’t be making people in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, etc feel like they need to strive for the bodies they had in their teens and 20’s. Or making people feel like they ‘need to get their bodies back’ after they have had ch…”— unskinny, unskinny.tumblr.com
“Does anyone really know who they are marrying? People change. We do not know if the person we commit to will be the same person in ten years. We do not know who they will become. Will you be the same person in ten years: in health, body, money, interests, mental health?”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You’ll be let down. You’ll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person…”— Dennis Lehane, amazon.com
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“I am so tired, so tired ...I am so fed up with everything and so afraid because I am not old enough for all of this.”— Greta Garbo, amazon.com
“I, whose youth was passed in the august, unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel a thrill in invoking once more the prayer and the anthem, "God save the Queen!"”— Winston Churchill, eulogyspeech.net
“Don’t you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them… You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.”— Kevin Wilson, amazon.com
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”— Douglas Kennedy, amazon.com
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com