Colleen McCullough Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

  Colleen McCullough

  Wisdom, Loss, Cells

• That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Breathing Space, Giving, Age

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.601, Head of Zeus

• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

• Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

  Colleen McCullough

  Age, Ominous, Phenomenon

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.72, Head of Zeus

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