Aging Quotes

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

When I dream, I am ageless.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

I grow more intense as I age.

You never know when you're making a memory.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

Wisdom comes with winters

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.