Aging Quotes

A snow year, a rich year.

I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, geopolitically speaking, are expanding.

I guess one gets the face one deserves.

In Italy, age is an asset.

As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

Avoid being a 'groan' up.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

I will stay in my bed!

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

Kids haven't changed - you have.

The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

All the products that are sold to us - those anti-aging products - are telling us that there's a due date.

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun.

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.