Quotes About Aging

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

One day, you're 17 and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.