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Quotes About Aging

I want to die young at a ripe old age.
~ Ashley Montagu
The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.
~ Charlie Munger
When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.
~ Debi Mazar
I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?
~ Eartha Kitt
Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
~ Lord Byron
No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.
~ Marie Beynon Lyons Ray
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
~ Naomi Wolf
Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
~ Reverend Malcolm Boyd
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
~ George A. Sheehan
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
~ Horace
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
~ Ian Anderson
To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.
~ Ignazio Silone
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
~ T. S. Eliot
It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.
~ Jennifer Garner
You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
~ Glenn Close
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
~ Rush Limbaugh
As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.
~ Theo Rossi
There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.
~ Christian Boltanski
As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
~ Christian Slater