top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Aging quotes
"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."
"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."
"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."
"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
"Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died..."
Explore more quotes by Carla H. Krueger
"I'm much more than a writer " I'm someone who puts different words together in an interesting way."
"When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer."
"There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't."
"It's much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that."
"Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind."
bottom of page