Quotes About Aging

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

Rich with the spoils of time.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Time is not kind to everything.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Memories just get richer with time.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.

the older we get, the more we understand that the women who know and love us - and love us despite what they know about us - are the joists that hold up the house of our existence.

I don't care that much about getting older, but I don't want to be forgotten, because to be remembered is to live and to be loved.

Nora had looked at herself in the bathroom mirror as she was applying mascara and realized that her skin had begun to look like silk after you washed it, serviceable but without its sheen.