Aging Quotes

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty.

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

Hi, ’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.

She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.

Grow old along with me--the best is yet to be,

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

..Thirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself.

All would live long but none would be old.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

When pain ends gain ends too.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.

It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.

Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.

Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!

When you’re seventy-five, you are still going to be you.

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

There’s nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status--what’s wrong is when you think that’s who you are.

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.

Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver

As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.

Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

They were growing closer and closer every day, and Charlotte was finding something magical at Wildflower, something she never thought she would find again—love.

Nobody likes the "A" word, but everyone ages. You can have an aging in place master suite that looks like a resort hotel, rather than a rehab hospital room.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)