Quotes About Aging

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

Time passes. That's for sure.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.