“I’ll never be as old as someone older than me, but I can be older than them if I outlive their lifespan.”
“I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
“To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
“When I turn thirty, in thirty days or so, I might be feeling old, so I’ll probably call my grandma up, because as old as I’ll feel, she’ll be feeling older. Twelve years older. ”
“But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”
“The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.”