Quotes About Aging

Despise not thy mother when she is old.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.

Don't worry about avoiding temptation — as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not.

When I get older losing my hairMany years from nowWill you still be sending me a ValentineBirthday greetings, bottle of wine.If I'd been out till quarter to threeWould you lock the door,Will you still need me, will you still feed meWhen I'm sixty-four.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.

If only, when one heardThat Old Age was comingOne could bolt the door,Answer "Not at home"And refuse to meet him!

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Somos ele e eu Sandokans de meia idade, pensou o médico, em que a aventura consiste em decifrar a página necrológica do jornal na esperança de que a omissão do nosso nome nos garanta estarmos vivos. E vamos entretanto partindo aos pedaços, por fracções, o cabelo, o apêndice, a vesicula, alguns dentes, como encomendas desmontáveis

In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you're this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent, and eventually it becomes time to take them out of the world.

He should have risked more. It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

As a rule, I don't go to funerals. I find them too horrible and upsetting and the older I get, of course, the more invitations I receive. As a favour to my friends, I'll make sure that none of them are told the date of mine.

I am sixty-five years old. I have had a long life and I will say that in many respects it has been a good one. I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

It's like that poem Larkin wrote. "I have started to say 'A quarter of a century'/ Or 'thirty years back' /About my own life/It makes me breathless…

she didn't colour her hair, which was lost in the dead man's land between brown and grey.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.

I think that there's certain music that instead of saying a lot of different things that are on my psyche, I just say, 'I've aged out.' Because that is the best way of putting it, because a lot of things I simply don't understand and will not understand and can't see any intrinsic value in.