Quotes About Aging

I think the older I get, the more psycho I get.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

I am getting old, but it works in this job. I'm so slow now that I can't get out of the way of the puck.

Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can't imagine doing it without a dog. I'm 84, so I won't get a puppy.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

As I get older, it's getting more frustrating because I'm starting to think about what I'm going to do after cycling, and I may be pushed to study alongside riding in order to prepare for retirement - all those things the professional blokes don't really have to think about.

I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

Oh, the years fly by, that's just natural.

You get fitter as you get older because the mind has the ability to get stronger if you allow it, so with a stronger mind you can become fitter. The body is second because the body follows the mind.

If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

You can't play forever.

You can't be 16 forever.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.