“Age is nothing but a number that’s also a perfectly accurate description of just how old you are.”
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing, and also because of the actual, irrefutable passage of time, regardless of how much we play.”
“You’re only as young as you feel, and also you’re as old as you actually are.”
“In one sense, she’s an old soul. In another, truer sense, she’s literally 20.”
“Age is mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter, except for in a physical and irrefutable sense.”
“Wrinkles show where your smiles have been, and also where your skin has lost significant amounts of collagen due to glycation, sun damage, and the natural effects of time.”
“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you’re a cheese, or anything else subject to the natural processes of death and decay.”
“Age has no reality except in the physical world, which is of course the only world that any of us live in.”
Tags: aging, inspiration, quotes
“I may be 80 years old, but I’m really a 30 year old at heart. I recently got a heart transplant from this 30 year old who died in a boating accident.”
This is so full of truthful facts it could be a Gal Science post.
I’m 30 but you’re only as old as you feel. Which is why I’m 87.
Yesterday I read the part of Death Comes for the Archbishop where Doña Isabella has to choose between admitting in public that she’s more than 8 years older than her daughter and living the rest of her years in poverty, and it’s a super-tough decision for her.
That book! awesome.
Yes! It made me so homesick for the desert.
OMG yes. If I could travel back in time to my H.S. self, I would say “read everything by Willa Cather now while you have a lot of free time”
See also Nancy, Lady Astor’s “I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.” Although I think we all agree her best quotation is “I married beneath me. All women do.”
How about in THE PROFESSOR’S HOUSE when the (male) Professor literally gives up hopefulness about living when he realizes he’s not young anymore? Even though he’s like in his 50s, can swim ably in Lake Michigan, and everyone comments on his good looks.
Age is nothing but a number that’s also a perfectly accurate description of just how old you are. Unless you have travelled fast enough and far enough from the Earth that relativity comes into play. In which case, let’s be honest, we’re only talking about a discrepancy of minutes, so suck it up.
As my mother always said, you either get to 50 or you don’t, so it’s probably better to get there.
My mother always said “When I grow up I don’t want any kids” so I can only presume that she’s plotting to kill me, along with my four siblings.
I am aging like a fine wine; that is, I am aging one day at a time, whether casked or not, so long as I exist in essentially my current form.
My mother always said "some parents wish their kids would be babies forever but I DO NOT"
Mom honesty. Mohmnesty?
Shuddup shuddup. I recently accepted that My First Wrinkles are not merely a temporary product of insufficient sleep, but are an actual, permanent feature. It took me some time to come to terms with the fact that this is my new face now – I will never, ever again not have wrinkles. I feel indignantly cross that nobody warned me to take full advantage of my wrinkle-free face while I had it. I have to resist a growing urge to go up to Young Folk, get right in their perfectly smooth faces, and semi-maniacally insist: “No! You’re not listening!! You really ARE only young once!!!”
I think I’m taking the early aging process well, all told.
My birthday is tomorrow. I hate you, Mallory Ortberg.
(I’m kidding! I’m kidding! I love you desperately!)
Happy birthday, Mallory Ortberg, it is not yet so bad as all that. http://www.geekosystem.com/blood-transfusions-fro…
In other news, it turns out that streamed blood transfusions from young subjects do, in fact, reverse some aspects of aging, so probably Bad As All That is getting amusingly closer.
I keep getting told that my next year-and-a-half of school will just FLY by, but what they really mean is that afterwards it will appear to have flown by, while the actual day-to-day will feel exactly like it is taking 1.5 years
When you’re happy (or content–what I aspire to) days go quickly, months slowly. When you’re not happy, days draaaag but months and years speed up. So be happy or content during the next 1.5 years.
Fifty is the new 30 except for in reality where 50 is still 50.
Personally, I have the knees of a woman twice my age. In retrospect, this was not a wise investment.
Shout out to this, the first article that convinced me this was the best website on the internet. Long live the-toast dot net and all that.