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Getting Older Quotes

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Mandy Hale
“You鈥檒l learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman鈥揕ife, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

George Carlin
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me鈥攖hey鈥檙e cramming for their final exam.”
George Carlin

Bernardine Evaristo
“Ageing is nothing to be ashamed of
Especially when the entire race is in it together
Although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older
Because it鈥檚 such a privilege to not die prematurely”
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.”
Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup

Jennifer Egan
“So this is it 鈳� what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

N.K. Jemisin
“The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

Gregory Maguire
“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.”
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Tyler Perry
“I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.”
Tyler Perry, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

N煤ria A帽贸
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”
N煤ria A帽贸

J.M. Coetzee
“His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).”
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

Noel Gallagher
“When you get to a certain age you find that other people鈥檚 opinions don鈥檛 really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.”
Noel Gallagher

Ling  Ma
“A woman sat alone at her dining table, reading and drinking a cocktail. It鈥檇 be such a relief to be older already, unburdened by the pressure to leverage your ever-fleeting beauty for whatever.”
Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Toba Beta
“Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Haruki Murakami
“As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.”
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

Edward W. Robertson
“One of the advantages to getting older, though: while you might not change all that much, you at least got to know yourself. The real you, minus the bullshit and wishful thinking.”
Edward W. Robertson, The Breakers Series: Books 4-6

Mehmet Murat ildan
“All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Clare Pooley
“Besides,鈥� continued Julian, 鈥榶ou can slam down a phone like that. You can鈥檛 slam down a mobile. Imagine, a whole generation who鈥檒l never know the joy of slamming down a phone.”
Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project

Jane Tara
“Once we鈥檝e grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts.”
Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

Jeanette Winterson
“Getting older happens suddenly. It's like swimming out to sea and realising that the shore you're making for isn't the shore where you started out.”
Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

Colson Whitehead
“It was in the realm of his humor, and Carney had doubtless laughed. You get older and the old jokes grow less funny.”
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“Time gives me the clarity that only comes when the days and the months and the years pile up on each other so you can stand on top of it all and have an unobstructed view.”
Jane Arden, You don't know what you want, do you?

“Becoming older didn鈥檛 sadden me. The realization that time actually moves made me sad. Years go by and moments become older. Distance becomes longer. Moments which were yesterday suddenly span decades. I don鈥檛 miss myself as a child. I miss the moments in my childhood which founded the person I am today. Curiosity, conversations, touch, and hurt - those are things I miss. Those are things which made me who I am.”
Dominic Riccitello

“There is only one thing on my bucket list-old age.”
George S. Midla "From Love to War"

Marceline Loridan-Ivens
“Il n'y a que le timbre des voix famili猫res, les visages amis que ma m茅moire recompose pour pr茅server une continuit茅 脿 ma longue vie.”
Marceline Loridan-Ivens, L'Amour apr猫s

“I am far too advanced in years to cast off my clothes and dance in a fountain,' Vivian said. 'My body is a temple that my lovers may only worship at my candlelight.”
M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

Mitta Xinindlu
“An age is just an indication that there's more to be done.”
Mitta Xinindlu

“You love old stories because you gave up making new stories.”
Sharky Rich

Bhuwan Thapaliya
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what they say. I hum my songs and march ahead.”
Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The world moved on, with or without you.
The songs you grew up listening to became classics and then, before you knew it, those songs were replaced by other songs that didn鈥檛 come out until after you graduated college. Eventually those would be replaced, too. Everything was replaced.”
Max Booth III

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