“The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.”
Source: Man and Superman
“I am older than your age and younger than your body.”
“…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everything’s coming about as it has. It might just have well as turned out differently. The events of people’s lives have, after all, only to the last degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards them”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
“...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled.
"You're going to be fifty anyhow”
Source: The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“Be selfish, if only for selfless reasons; be selfless, if only for selfish reasons.”
Source: Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives - the inspiring new book from the multi-million copy bestselling Queen of Self-Help
“Oh, but we do age. We don’t grow up.”
Source: Find Me
“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.”
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.”
Source: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
“Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.”
Source: The Happy Endings Book Club