Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

It's weird how people hate getting older.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.