Quotes About Ageing

Pero si un día encontrara ese autor tan buscado, ese fantasma, ese genio, difícilmente éste mejoraría lo ya dicho por tantos otros acerca de las grietas que separan las expectativas de la juventud y la realidad de la madurez, lo ya dicho por tantos otros sobre la naturaleza ilusoria de nuestras elecciones, sobre la decepción que culmina la búsqueda de logros, sobre el presente como fragilidad y el futuro como dominio de la vejez y de la muerte.

Los dos viejos no tenían expedito y vividor más que el corazón, que funcionaba como una máquina recién salida del taller. Era una aguja imantada, que a pesar de su fuerte potencia y exacto movimiento, no podía hacer navegar bien el casco viejo y averiado en que iba embarcada.

Doña Flora de Cisniega era una vieja que se empeñaba en permanecer joven: tenía más de cincuenta años; pero ponía en práctica todos los artificios imaginables para engañar al mundo, aparentando la mitad de aquella cifra aterradora.

All would live long, but none would be old.

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

Getting older doesn't worry me, what does is getting unfit.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

See Time has touched me gently in his race And left no odious furrows in my face.

Quanto mais puta em jovem mais séria na velhice. Ficou donzela e bucho…

If I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud, because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.

I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.

Ageing is a blessing, and I feel every inch of 46.

One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

in any case, ageing is nothing to be ashamed of especially when the entire human race is in it together

ageing is nothing to be ashamed of especially when the entire human race is in it together although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older because it's such a privilege to not die prematurely

Miz Goodpepper leaned forward and looked deep into my eyes. "My grandmother said, 'Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old.

"Don't worry about senility," my grandfather used to say. "When it hits you, you won't know it."

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?

I've always hated your fucking nagging.' 'It's not nagging, it's for compassion.' 'Right. I won't be coming back here, Eva. You're such a drag now. It's your age. Is it the menopause that's making you like this?

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, "We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.