Aging Quotes

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

...there is no old age of the soul.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I am in the prime of senility.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

The old are in a second childhood.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

To retire is the beginning of death.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

Biological age is the key component of the aging process.

The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.

Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these very old, aging, aging ships. They're old. They're tired.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.