Quotes About Ageing

I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people.

Ahora todo el mundo quiere ser siempre joven; lo entiendo, pero es un poco idiota.

All life has two trajectories: the one linear and irreversible, the trajectory of ageing and dying, the other elliptical and reversible, a cycle of the same forms in a sequence which knows neither childhood, death nor the unconscious, and which leaves nothing behind. This sequence is constantly intersecting with the other, and occasionally erases all traces of it at a stroke.

When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

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.

If you are turning 40, just be graceful, don't get into teenager outfits, put two hair bands and go 'aww.' Don't do that! Don't be stupid. I don't want to live that life. It is so fake, so manufactured. I am not interested.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

Humorists are precisely the kinds of guys who can cut through the orgy of petty indignation that the aging baby boomers are imposing on this great country.

Then he undressed and brushed his teeth. He examined his face in the slightly tarnished looking-glass above the wash-basin. He was fifty-seven, but according to this reflection older. His face would seem younger if he put on a bit of weight; chubbiness could be made to cover a multitude of sins. But he didn't want that; he liked being thought of as beyond things.

When they are young, they are feeble in body, and when they get older, they are foolish in mind; they are maintained in their youth in effortless comfort, but pass their old age in laborious squalor, disgraced by their past actions and burdened by their present ones, because in their youth they have run through all that was pleasant, and laid up for their old age what is hard to bear.

Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology.

Nep?estáváš b?hat proto, že zestárneš. Zestárneš, protože p?estaneš b?hat. (Dipsea Demon)

In Cadaques, time is suspended in such a way that days spent here are not counted in the ageing process.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin.

Quando si diventa adulti, uno finisce per rendersi conto che ha un tetto sulla testa, ovvero un limite. Man mano che passano gli anni, la testa s'avvicina al tetto, e uno vede chiaramente anche le macchie e la sporcizia. Forse non riuscite ancora a comprendere questi nostri sentimenti. Perciò al momento le vostre potenzialità sono illimitate. Perché sopra di voi s'estende il cielo infinito […]

Livet är inrättat för de gamla, därför är det en olycka att vara ung. Det är inrättat för de tanklösa och slöa, för dem som ta falskt för äkta eller till och med föredrar det falska, därför är det en sjukdom att tänka och känna, en barnsjukdom som man måste gå igenom innan man blir man...

It's no big deal. It is a big deal. They have no right to make you feel that way. Or, just ignore it, one day you'll turn forty and you'll slowly realize you don't feel the eyes anymore, and the freedom is a relief, but you'll also sort of miss it, and when a truck driver whistles at you while you're crossing the road, you'll think, Really? For me?

Nobody had warned her that this would happen during middle age: these sudden, wildly inappropriate waves of desire for young men, with no biological imperative whatsoever.