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“The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.”
― Ashay Abbhi, Chronicles of Urban Nomads

“To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Most people do not have a problem with being old. They have a problem with looking old.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Oftentimes, I had gone to the river to look at my reflection in the sunlight. Each time a face looked at me with subdued eyes. What I saw was not the same as the image I pretended to see when I looked in the mirror. Stubbornly, I found solace in blaming the ripples for the wrinkles and abhorrent distortions on my face. A painful allegory of sight, and a revelation of reality.”
― FIDELIS O MKPARU, 2019

“Some people do not really hate aging; they merely love the colour black.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...”
― Robert Wesley Miller

“Starlight beats when heart twinkles
Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to flame the night
Verse inscribed as written light”
― Munia Khan

“Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs; some wear one to conceal their age.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You cannot really stop aging. You can only delay or hide some of its effects.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The real reason why most old people hate their wrinkles and white hair is because they are still far from being wise.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“His deep brown eyes added both confidence and compassion to his looks. He had creases—around his eyelids, his nose, his mouth—that may have originated in sunlight and outdoor work but seemed graven in a love of humanity â€� The creases were his statement to the world: This man loved life and just as deeply feared losing it or anyone he loved in it. He carried on his shoulders the uneasy fraternal twins of love and responsibility.”
― Meredith Marple, The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More: A Great Wharf Novel

“By contrast, my wife at fifty-two yeas old seems to me just as attractive as the day I first met her. If I were to say this out loud, she would say, 'Douglas, that's just a line. No one prefers wrinkles, no one prefers grey.' To which I'd reply, 'But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me? It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or fourty-three. It's that face.'
Perhaps she would have liked to hear this but I had never got around to saying it out loud. I had always presumed there would be time and now, sitting on the edge of the bed at four a.m., no longer listening out for burglars, it seemed that it might be too late.”
― David Nicholls, Us

“I laugh at the wrinkles in the mirror.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“I don't take wrinkles seriously. They only exist in the mirror.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Aging is dreaded the most by people whose income is entirely dependent on their looks.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I believe you do not deserve words like “anti-wrinkleâ€� and “anti-aging.â€� Your experience as a woman is much too rich to be rewritten in favor of artificial youthfulness.”
― Ashley Asti, Dear Sisters: Your Nature is to Bloom

“Wrinkles appeared and disappeared as he squinted his eyes and relaxed them, like someone peering into a strobe light, police car-top beacon, flashing neon beer sign.”
― Dennis Vickers, Between the Shadow and the Soul

“Not so fast,â€� said Kato, eyeing EJ suspiciously and ignoring Pickles’s harrumphing protest. “You’re looking a little too chipper for a pug who hates wearing suits and premiere parties. So what’s with the smile?"

"And why shouldn’t I be chipper? It’s a beautiful night, and the air is resplendent with love," said EJ, dressed in a dark gray Calvin Klein. (A B+ by red-carpet standards. Let’s face it, EJ’s goo just wasn’t made for skinny pants.)
--Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles, Rhys Ella, Copyright 2014.”
― Rhys Ella, Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles

“You must look beyond the past. It has already come and gone, and with it laid the pivotal foundations to your destiny in its wake.”
― Rhys Ella, Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles

“All age is a kind of tiredness, I think. When you’re young, the lines never show. Every morning you wake unmarked, wiped clear by sleep. One day, though, you see lines that itch, as though some crumb of existence has been creased into your skin. They can never be smoothed away, and after a while you forget that this heavy, irritable feeling wasn’t always there.”
― Amanda Craig, In a Dark Wood

“Yes. That's why it's so hard to look in a mirror. You are looking at yourself, but you don't recognize yourself. It's a shock. The person you see is older, and heavier, and has wrinkles. But you don't feel that way inside, and it's hard to believe that's how you really look now, how other people see you.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way

“He didn't
speak. He croaked. And when he croaked, he didn't say much.
He was neither liked nor disliked. He was just there. His face
had wrinkled into strange runs and mounds of unattractive flesh.
No light shone from his face.”
― Bukowski