Quotes About Aging

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4PM.

I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis.

Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.

it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, it isn't.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train.

When you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis.

See what I mean? She thinks she sees all kinds of things out in the yard. Last week it was flying turtles." She walked over and picked up his dishes. "I'm not sure if it was that fall she took a while ago or just her age; she's older than God.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody.

but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors . . . No, it isn't.

When you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

On every door the management had placed a photograph of the person so they could find their room. As he went by he saw face after face of someone who used to be young.

Old people need to see children every once in a while," she whispered confidentially. "It lifts their spirits. Some of these real old ladies they have out here just sit in their wheelchairs all hunched over…but when the nurses give them a baby doll to hold, you'd be surprised at how they just sit right up, holding on to their dolls. Most of them think it's their own babies they've got.

When someone old dies, it is even sadder. First you notice that the paper doesn't come anymore, then gradually the lights are turned out, the gas turned off, the house gets locked up, and the yard is no longer kept up, then it goes on the market and new people come in and change everything. Elner

Look at me...and tell me what you see.' Norma put her pencil down and studied him. 'You look just like you always did, Macky, only older.' 'How much older?' 'You look... oh, I don't know, Macky, you look the same to me as you always did. I don't know what you look like. Go look for yourself in the mirror.' 'I want an objective view. I see myself every day.' 'Well, I see you every day too. How am I supposed to know what you look like?

I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles." PACKAGE FOR ALICE POINT CLEAR, ALABAMA PETE THE MAILMAN WALKED TO SOOKIE'S DOOR AND KNOCKED JUST AS Lenore was coming up the stairs with a sack of B & B pecans she had picked up for Sookie.

Una vida más larga sin duda representa una buena noticia para los individuos, pero es, en cambio, una mala noticia para el Estado del bienestar y los políticos que tienen que persuadir a los votantes de la necesidad de reformarlo. Hay, sin embargo, una noticia aún peor: el hecho de que, por más que la población mundial se haga más vieja, el propio mundo puede estar volviéndose al mismo tiempo un lugar más peligroso.

I don't think she looks sixty, do you Nik?" "Are you kidding! She looks better than we do and we're only thirty-six.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

It is as if I am an old man who sees all the friends of his childhood dying around him and who thinks his own death at hand.

El tiempo pasa, nada nos dice. Envejecemos. Sepamos, con malicia casi, sentirnos ir. De nada vale hacer un gesto. No se resiste al dios atroz dios que sus hijos siempre devora.

The very act of living means dying, since with each day we live, we have one less day of life remaining.

If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man

If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflections what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man.