Quotes About Ageing

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

she had discovered that ageing and what they called maturity were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one by one.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...

I think it is a medically proven fact that the older one gets, the more quick one is two spots conspiracies. Skulduggery. Cloak and dagger stuff.

Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.

Age withers only the outside.

Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population.

The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can't see how bad things are getting.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

Growing old is not growing up.

Yet one has a sense of uneasiness in looking at her,–a sense of opposing elements, of which a fierce collision is imminent; surely there is a hushed expression, such as one often sees in older faces under borderless caps, out of keeping with the resistant youth, which one expects to flash out in a sudden, passionate glance, that will dissipate all the quietude, like a damp fire leaping out again when all seemed safe.

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

I like sit-ups and ab exercises. I always want to keep my tummy flat and tight, even as I age. It keeps your back healthy and keeps you young.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. Ogden Nash (1902–71), American poet I

I groan much but to what end? Humans simply Cannot be ageless like divinities.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.