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Quotes About Aging

It's not in Wenger's philosophy to go back and sign former players when they are older.
~ Robert Pires
At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
~ Irving Harper
Exercise is the fountain of youth, I believe.
~ Richard Belzer
I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.
~ Julia Sawalha
Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.
~ Peter Lindbergh
A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.
~ Ruth Bradley
I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.
~ Ivan Reitman
Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody.
~ Keeley Hawes
You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.
~ Danny Boyle
I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.
~ Sheena Easton
After 40, every day is a bonus. We should know how to live our lives to the fullest.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
~ Craig Venter
The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.
~ Diana Rigg
As you grow older, life seems funnier.
~ Ruskin Bond
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.
~ Florence King
At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again. At which point I conceived a realm more real than life. At which point there was at least some possibility. Some possibility, in which I didn't believe, of being with her once more.
~ Forrest Gander
bereavement; and now—an elderly man—
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren't.
~ Francine Prose
Juan Garcia began putting chairs upside down on the tables. Gathering Mr. Packard's spoon, cup, and saucer, Dynah watched the old man walk stiffly across the room. His arthritis was troubling him again.
~ Francine Rivers
Growing older is to grow more wicked.
~ Frank Herbert
This is what it means to be human. Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
~ Frank Herbert
If one delays old age or death by the use of melange or by that learned adjustment of fleshly balance which you Bene Gesserits so rightly fear, such a delay invokes only an illusion of control. Whether one walks rapidly through the sietch or slowly, one traverses the sietch. And that passage of time is experienced internally.
~ Frank Herbert
For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.
~ Frank Herbert
And he thought: Growing older is to grow more wicked.
~ Frank Herbert