Quotes About Aging

Now I'm an old man and I won't live another 20 years maybe not another 20 weeks, maybe the next second I'll be carried off to rebirth the worm farm, maybe it's already happened- How should I know, says Allen Ginsberg Maybe I've been dreaming all along-

When he laughed, Roy's mouth revealed a Stonehenge of ancient teeth.

Hadn't I been humiliated when I was looking longingly at Roger Federer's twin on the Tube and he offered me his seat? Our bodies continue to make fools of us as we age. Lust doesn't die to spare the sensitivities of the grossed-out young who prefer not to think of wrinkly couplings, and - this is really cruel - carnal feelings are among the very last to checkout.

Men grow old, but they do not ripen.

Her locks an ancient lady gave Her loving husband's life to save; And men — they honored so the dame — Upon some stars bestowed her name. But to our modern married fair, Who'd give their lords to save their hair, No stellar recognition's given. There are not stars enough in heaven.

LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

While none of us can know for sure that running will add years to our life, there's no doubt it will add life to our years.

I'd always kept an eye on the house. I don't mean doing repairs, for as the house didn't belong to me that was not my place, but rather I'd keep watch over its decline. The changes come slowly, like watching a woman age: another line, the spread of crow's feet, age spots rising slowly to the surface. One day the face you know is ravaged.

Time hasn't been kind." "Time never is. A fighter keeps fighting even so. Thought you were a fighter?

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.

The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

Maybe there are only so many faces in the world. You get old enough, you start seeing 'em used again. Craw

Strange thing, that–the fewer years you have to lose the more you fear the losing of 'em. Maybe a man just gets a stock of courage when he's born, and wears it down with each scrape he gets into.

You're young and got dreams ahead of you still. You don't know how it is. One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realize all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

Las lesiones cerebrales pueden arruinarnos la vida. El alcohol no es sano, lo demuestran las lesiones graves que se aprecian en las imágenes de SPECT. Algunos medicamentos que solemos tomar, como los ansiolíticos comunes, no son buenos para el cerebro. Enfermedades como el Alzheimer empiezan en el cerebro décadas antes de manifestarse los síntomas.

A Spanish study illustrates this perfectly. Researchers at the Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory at the Spanish National Cancer Center in Madrid studied 40 pairs of identical twins, ranging in age from 3 to 74. They found that younger twins who had similar lifestyles and spent more years together had similar epigenetic patterns, while older twins, in particular those with dissimilar lifestyles who spent fewer years together, had very different epigenetic patterns.13

For example, researchers found four times as many differentially expressed genes between one pair of 50-year-old twins as they did between a pair of 3-year-old twins. The twins were born with exactly the same DNA, but those with different lifestyles (and different lives) ended up expressing their genes very differently—especially as time went on.

If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

As we get older, aerobic capacity usually decreases, dropping by as much as 1 percent per year after age 25 in sedentary people.

Invent a way not to ged old," he said. "It is a terrible goddem trick to play on someone. Gedding old is no way to stop being young.

he sees a place where he will passively fade away, like wallpaper that gets too much sunlight and slowly loses its color. This