After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.

— Michael Zadoorian

After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamoring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. Just when you need it, just when you could use an arm or a leg, suddenly the body has other things to do. It falters, it buckles under you; it melts away as if made of snow, leaving nothing much. Two lumps of coal, an old hat, a grin made of pebbles. The bones dry sticks, easily broken.

— Margaret Atwood

Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Age and illness made one a dualist

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.

— Anonymous

Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman’s ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman’s usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.

— Robin Caldwell

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.

— James Salter

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

— Brielle A. Marino

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

— Orhan Pamuk

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

— Pietro Aretino