“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.”— Andrew Carnegie, en.wikiquote.org
“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it’s not like that. It happens overnight.”— Haruki Murakami, 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
“You want to grow old with someone who makes you feel special, beautiful, spontaneous, loved, and cherished. Someone to sit on a porch swing with when you’re 80 looking at the grandchildren playing soccer in the backyard. If you cannot picture yourself doing this with your significant other than they…”— Tricia Miller, thoughtcatalog.com
“I took her face in my hands and pulled her forehead against mine, and in that instant I felt our present and past selves in the room, the two of us in college choking back our emotions, a tsunami of love and longing and fear, as we slow-danced with our heads pressed together in a honky-tonk bar, pea…”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.com
“That’s all it comes down to. Choices. I choose not to have children. I am very aware of the consequences of that choice. I do not stay up at night worrying about who will change my adult diapers 30 or 40 years later, if it comes to that. My womb does not collapse in sadness when I see other people’s…”— Chinmayee Manjunath, scroll.in
“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
“Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.”— Stanley Kunitz, amazon.com