Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I feel as though going into middle age really suits me.

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

I think when you turn 50 you get a little melancholic in a way.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Few people know how to be old.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

I've always looked old for my age.

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

I do not want to be young again.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.