Quotes About Aging

Both of them had a sad desperation about them. Lord, André thought, why do young lovers dote on misery? How nice to be an aging lover and when you walk into the room meet someone who is happy and loves in an uncomplicated way. Young people demand tragedy. He had had that with Nicole. Love for the young is a waste and a mess.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

Even a paperback printed on acidic paper, whose pages have yellowed ten years on, can still be read, no matter how badly the spine is cracked or how inflated it's become from being dropped in the bathtub. The pages might separate from the spine, but a rubber band can keep them together. You may loan a book to your circle of closest friends, but shoes are another matter. A great book will never go out of style - books go with every outfit.

Te estás empezando a marchitar, ¿sabes?, y cuando llega ese momento nadie puede evitar que sus pétalos estén desordenados.

The poet replied: "I always am, my child; you will be too in a few years. While one is climbing the ladder, one sees the top and feels hopeful; but when one has reached that summit, one sees the descent and the end which is death. It is slow work ascending, but one descends rapidly. At your age one is joyous; one hopes for many things which never come to pass. At mine, one expects nothing but death.

For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it.

My days keep getting shorter. When I'm a hundred, I'll be going to bed before I get up.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

Op zijn twintigste is iedereen intelligent; met de tijd wordt het steeds moeilijker om intelligent te blijven. Maar misschien leer je dan ter compensatie om gelukkig te zijn.