Quotes About Aging

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

I think when you get older, things come along that you know are a test in some way of your ability to stay with it. And when e-mail came along, I was just going to fall in love with it. And I did. I can't believe it now - it's like one of those ex-husbands that you think, 'What was I thinking?'

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I can't stand old people," Nicole said bluntly. "You'll be old one day," James said. "Nah," Nicole said. "Live fast, die young, that's my motto.

I'm at that age where if you flattened out all the wrinkles I'd be seven feet tall.

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

"In the days of my youth, I remembered my God,And he hath not forgotten my age."

It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive. From twenty until death he tries to conceal it.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

Drink up, boys, drink up and don't worry, if we finish this bottle we'll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won't be the same as the one we've got now, but it'll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don't make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don't you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.

Qué lástima que pase el tiempo ¿verdad?, qué lástima que nos muramos y que nos hagamos viejos y que las cosas buenas se vayan alejando de nosotros al galope.

While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about Antonio Jones, who had been dead for several years now. As before, he asked himself what Jones could have died of, and the one answer that occurred to him was old age. One day, walking down some street in Brooklyn, Antonio Jones had felt tired, sat down on the sidewalk, and a second later stopped existing.

Todos estamos acostumbrados a morirnos cada cierto tiempo y tan poco a poco que la verdad es que cada día estamos más vivos. Infinitamente viejos e infinitamente vivos.

a woman who despite her years was still as strong willed as ever, a woman who didn't cling to the edge of the abyss but plunged into it with curiosity and elegance. A woman who plunged into the abyss sitting down.

Ay, que lastima que ya no hagan mezcal Los Suicidas. Qué lástima que pase el tiempo ¿verdad? Que lástima que nos muramos y que nos hagamos viejos y que las cosas buenas se vayan alejando de nosotros al galope.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children.

Uno piensa que con el paso de los años se va a volver más sapiente y criterioso, que va a ser como el viejo que le enseñaba a Kung Fu: el sabio. Pero es mentira, con el fútbol estoy cada vez más intolerante y maniático.

Stai diventando piccolo, – disse Mattia con fatica. – Vuoi dire che sto tornando giovane? – No, piccolo di statura. Piccolo di misura. Stai diventando un nonno piccolo. – Oh, bene! Ecco perché mi sento così leggero, – disse il nonno.

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.