Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

— Don DeLillo

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then...thinking there was a big ol' world out there to conquer.

— Melissa Marr

Eurasia Johansen was ready. Anyone could see that. Everything about her ancient self gave evidence to it: Her skin, wrinkled and transparent... But mainly, it was her eyes. They were drawn into her face as if her memories occupied more of her sight than what was actually in front of her.

— Clare Vanderpool

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

— Núria Añó

Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye

— Benny Bellamacina

... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.

— Julian Barnes

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went.

— Philip K. Dick

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing.

— Anthony Liccione

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

— Amit Kalantri

Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.

— Abhysheq Shukla