Quotes About Aging

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Old age is life's parody.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

But if a human was to avoid all life-threatening diseases and infections and accidents, he—or she—should live to be a hundred and fifteen.