Quotes About Ageing

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

As long as your life is a succession of love stories, you can never grow old.

I dream that someone will love me as a person so wholly that it won't matter whether I have gray pubic hair or sagging breast.

Zedd truly did scowl,now, You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is. That be right, Adie said, Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

And Granny Weatherwax said, "I was younger when I last danced with you. But I am old now. There will be no more dances for me.

Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

Last year I discovered that there are secrets to being joyful. … I saw that it is good to be present in good places… [and] it is the small things you do daily which comprise your life and make it meaningful… [and] the third idea I have forgotten. It will have to wait. A perfect illustration of ageing.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

The first way that selection can cause ageing is to keep early-acting mutations rare in populations, while allowing ones with effects late in life to become common.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

why as a society we are often so cruel or oblivious to the elderly. Why do we find it so easy to make jokes about them, or ignore them? Is it because we fear what they represent: our own ageing and approaching death?

It's to the effect that America has progressed from infancy to senility without having passed through a period of maturity.

I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!

I would like to do my own daily talk show. Wisdom is the gift of ageing; no young person can have or buy it. My success was and is self-evident. I'm alive. I've lived. I've thrived and have grown as a person. I'm now healthier than ever. Who can argue with that?

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films. The girls were getting younger, and I was just getting too old.

Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old isn't that great. I've got friends much older than me and much younger, and I love that. It means you get to teach as well as learn.

We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer.