Quotes About Aging

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

The people's life journey traverses from being child to being wild; the privilege is not in growing old but being able to hold the infant's nature for as many days and as much as a person can in oneself.

When one expects to go on "forever" as one does in one's youth or even middle age, horizons are merely limits, not yet ends. It is when one first sees the horizon as an end that one first begins to see.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

The old are in a second childhood.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Old men are children for a second time.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Guaranteed to remove wrinkles.

a twinkle in her eye. "Someday I may be old too!

I keep brooding on whether I shall reach the age of my father and brother, or even that of my mother, tortured as I am by the conflict between the desire for rest, the dread of renewed suffering (which a prolonged life would mean) and by the anticipation of sorrow at being separated from everything to which I am still attached.

She stared ahead with eyes where dreams no longer swam, where thoughts no longer had any life. It was that hazy stare of old people behind which was the mysterious nothingness which was drawing nearer, the absolute end, the annihilation of everything and everybody, the awful end in helplessness, grief, grief, and the sleep of everything there is.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.

As we get older the muscle structure tends to atrophy at a faster and faster rate. The ideal remedy for this is bodybuilding.

The average man," explained the late Dr. Ernst Jokl, "loses fifty percent of his muscle mass between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five.

If you're experiencing decline in fluid intelligence—and if you are my age, you are—it doesn't mean you are washed up. It means it is time to jump off the fluid intelligence curve and onto the crystallized intelligence curve.

There is a falling tide to life, the transition from fluid to crystallized intelligence.

the average American considers the beginning of "old age" to be six years after the average person dies. We avoid thinking realistically about the length of our lives and our time left, lulling us into the false belief that we have all the time in the world.

Thus, psychologist Carl Jung noted, "what is a normal goal to a young person becomes a neurotic hindrance in old age.

No matter how introverted you are, you cannot expect to thrive into old age without healthy, intimate relationships.