Aging Quotes

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

I'm falling into disrepair

Age and illness made one a dualist

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.

If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

Men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it's not that way for women, and they will tell you.

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.