Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

—Kurt Vonnegut

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.

—Mary Sarton

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

—Susan Sarandon

How confusing the beams from memory’s lamp are; / One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. / What is the secret of the trick? / How did I get so old so quick?

—Ogden Nash

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.

—Jock Falkson

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

—Franz Kafka

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

—Jim Fiebig

Denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

—Madeleine L’Engle

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

—Oscar Wilde

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

—Arthur Wing Pinero