Quotes About Aging

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

I think that life expectancy over the last 10 years has increased dramatically. You're living longer.

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.