{"quotes":[{"text":"As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["feelings","feelings-and-emotions","getting-older","growing-old","observation"],"id":20378,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.","author":"George Carlin","tags":["death","getting-older","religion"],"id":66019,"author_id":"George+Carlin"},{"text":"You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.","author":"Ted Hughes","tags":["acceptance","getting-older","maturity","tolerance"],"id":79084,"author_id":"Ted+Hughes"},{"text":"You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.","author":"Gary Lutz","tags":["aging","getting-older","les-jadis","wisdom","wry-humor"],"id":93265,"author_id":"Gary+Lutz"},{"text":"The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.","author":"Núria Añó","tags":["age","ageing","aging","aging-gracefully","economy","getting-older","growing-old","humor","inevitability","irony-of-life","job","jobs","life","living","mathematics","middle-age","nuria-ano","old-age","old-aged","old-people","retired","retiring","work","worker","workers","working-class","works"],"id":101575,"author_id":"N%C3%BAria+A%C3%B1%C3%B3"},{"text":"There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles.","author":"Anthony Marra","tags":["aging","getting-older","life"],"id":130565,"author_id":"Anthony+Marra"},{"text":"People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.","author":"Tommy Wallach","tags":["age","change","death","getting-older","inspirational"],"id":142805,"author_id":"Tommy+Wallach"},{"text":"He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.","author":"Colin Cotterill","tags":["aging","getting-older","humor","memory"],"id":164640,"author_id":"Colin+Cotterill"},{"text":"Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.","author":"Núria Añó","tags":["age","ageing","aging","aging-gracefully","brexit","continent","economy","europe","european-economic-area","european-union","europeans","getting-older","growing-old","humor","inevitability","irony-of-life","job","jobs","life","living","mathematics","middle-age","nuria-ano","old-age","old-aged","old-people","retired","retiring","staggering","staggering-society","work","worker","workers","working-class","works"],"id":165645,"author_id":"N%C3%BAria+A%C3%B1%C3%B3"},{"text":"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","getting-older","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","realization","time","time-wastage","value","waste","wasted-life","wasted-time","wealth","work","world"],"id":175929,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}