Quotes About Aging

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?

Another Spartan, when he saw men sitting on stools in a lavatory, declared: "May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man.

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

He aprendido mucho en dos mil años, pero nada sobre ningún Dios, excepto que surgen, cambian, envejecen y mueren. Si hay algo más allá del universo, dudo que se interese por nosotros.

fingers clubbed with heart disease, distorted with arthritis, clutched in agony, mottled blue from poisons, nicotine-stained, cut or weathered, grazed in a fall,

Yellow gold is plentiful compared to white-haired friends.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

By the time the last Americans had vanished into thin Englishmen I was nearly forty.

As my friends became older, many of them married and moved out of Soho into the suburbs where their failure would be less apparent.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden.She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is.

Does reliability reinforce your illusion of control? If so, I wonder if in developed countries (I won't use the hateful term civilized), the treacherous, illusion-crushing process of aging is more difficult to bear. Am I having an easier time than women my age in London? Marie-Thérèse

My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.