Quotes About Aging

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 planning for someday and then quietly, without you ever noticing, someday today. And then someday yesterday. And this is your life.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

Count your summers, not your winters.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.