Quotes About Aging

We go to sleep, and time speeds by us like starlight, whisking us hours closer to the grave. Yet sleep rejuvenates; these lost hours slow down aging and keep us young; time running fast means that Time will run slow.

Who would sacrifice the most valuable years of his life if he knew that he was doomed to poverty in his old age and that he to whom his youth was devoted would neglect him when he was worn out?

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.

In it, he pushed the metric of typewriter spaces, and quoted from a poem, "The Catholic Bells," to show us Williams's "mature style at fifty"! This was a memorable phrase, and one that made maturity seem possible, but a long way off. I more or less memorized "The Catholic Bells," and spent months trying to console myself by detecting immaturities in whatever Williams had written before he was fifty.

Who can help us from our nothing to the all, we aging downstream faster than a scepter can check?

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are dispensable.

The elderly will tell you that although their bodies have aged and their minds have changed, their witness is much the same as always. Even in old age, it remains a young upstart voice—detached, observant, occasionally rude. Whether ignored or embraced, the witness continues to whisper the truth to us as long as we live.

As younger men watch you and me running our gun lap, any anxiety they may feel about getting older should evaporate, simply by watching how we're doing it, by seeing what Christ can make possible even in our aging, diminishing years.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

The house stank; a stench all its own pervaded every corner. It was a threnody in the key of Cat minor, with a ground-bass of Old Dog, and modulations of old people, waning lives, and relinquished hopes.

Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession.

When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth. But when we become old and wise, we become willing to sacrifice every bit of our wealth for just a day of good health.' And

Qué sentido tiene malgastar tus mejores mañanas y los días potencialmente productivos escalando montañas que más tarde, cuando estéis débiles y arrugados, veréis que eran las equivocadas? Es muy triste.

Molti in questa epoca trascorrono le loro ore più preziose occupati, occupatissimi, a inseguire obiettivi banali e divertimenti artificiali, mentre trascurano la vita vera. Questa è la ricetta per collassare alla fine. A che serve passare le vostre mattine migliori e i vostri giorni potenzialmente più produttivi a scalare montagne che, quando sarete deboli e vecchi, capirete che erano quelle sbagliate? Tristissimo.

when we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth and when we grow old and wise we realize what's most important—and become willing to sacrifice all our wealth for even one day of good health. You never want to be the richest person in the graveyard, you know.

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older--she'd liked them. They were reminders--the back, the knee, the achy wrists--they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive.

So what happens when proovs get old? he asks, as if the subject is close to his heart. They age gracefully, Lanaya says with a smile. That's the best we can do.

Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.