All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

Everyone in the world ages at exactly the same rate and time. We’re all getting older in unison.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.

I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Right now is the youngest I’ll ever be, so I suppose I’d better act immature while I still can.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregive

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.