Quotes About Ageing

This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

I'm a versatile player, can play in numerous positions, and I have a good football brain, even if it is getting older.

The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these years, it may be impossible to trace the sequence of facials, spa treatments, mud baths, cosmetic procedures, lifts and staples, collagen implants, outpatient touch-ups, tannings, Botox injections, cyst and growth removals, and stem-cell injections that have caused a seventy-two-year-old man to have the face of a nine-year-old Filipino girl.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.

I met a producer at a festival last year, and she said: you will find as you get older that there might not be parts; there aren't always roles for women out there that are any good. I don't think I will ever stop feeling that way: we've all grown up in the culture, it infiltrates your subconscious.

And our conscience is getting old, its an old woman, and no one looks at it anymore.

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.

You actually, waste time when you cry over wasted time. Time should be a guide that helps you focus. All you should worry about is ageing with unfinished business.

I find this western idea that ageing is wrong really distasteful. You should be happy that you look 50, you look 60, you've got to 70 - it should be an achievement.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

We are all ageing and eventually we are all going to end up in the same place. It is okay to get older and look older. It doesn't make you any less of a human being or any less beautiful.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Pereza - La pereza de la adolescencia es un ensayo para la incapacidad de la vejez.

Subí a mi habitación y me serví un whisky. Gran error: al primer trago me entraron arcadas. Me estaba haciendo viejo para aquellos trotes.

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Her dreams felt so far out of reach. She'd faced one of them tonight, faced him in four-inch heels. But four-inch heels didn't make her any younger. She couldn't click her four-inch heels together and find her true way home. Four inches didn't bring her any closer to happiness. Four inches didn't erase the past.

There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster.