She’s young and beautiful, which is twice as good as old and ugly. Some people are both, and some people are both.

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

Michael and Luke met for the first time after 106 years – although the pair lived just 20 miles away from each other.

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.