Age Quotes
He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.
At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.
This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.
I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.
I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.
I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.
He would say things like, “But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.
Somehow, we both got carried away. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.
Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality
I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.
I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.
It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.
...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.
Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.
We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it
We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.
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.
You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.
Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.
The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.
The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, and the places we keep them get weaker with age.
Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.
I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.
things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.
Walk your own path and be yourself
For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.
Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful?
Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.
There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.
There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.
Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.
Enjoy your youthful times and do the all the work you can.
...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled."You're going to be fifty anyhow