Aging Quotes
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.
Coming down life's highwayAt ninety mile an hour I want to slideWith bad brakes and bald tiresInto my final parking space
You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.
In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn’t ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.
So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.
Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well keep it stronger.
We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.
We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.
I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.
The older you grow, the younger your fears grow!
In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.
The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.
You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)
The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.
The past has come apart events are vagueingthe future is inexploitable
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)
The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.
Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...
It is my opinion that enjoying yourself in the present and loosening your definition of time slows the aging process.
We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!
In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.
We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.
She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.
Why do you paint, Nona?"...'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.
Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.
Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.