Quotes About Aging

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Life is short, but the years are long.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

I've got to the stage in life where all my friends are rich or dead

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.