Quotes About Aging

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

As for bad genetics, well, heart disease happens to be the number one killer of male gorillas in captivity. Heart disease is also the number one killer of male humans in civilization. Median life expectancy for male gorillas in zoos is thirty-one years, so Mokolo's age of twenty-two roughly corresponds to a man in his fifties. While heart disease may be common at this age, there's nothing inevitable about a middle-aged man—or gorilla—dying from a heart attack.

One day your knees will creak," he told them. Stig looked up at him and rolled his eyes. "If I don't get drowned by my best friend in the meantime.

I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...

O Time and change! -- with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

There are times when all the lies you have told about yourself to yourself just fall away. In your twenties, you tell yourself the lie that you are unusual, unprecedented, and interesting. You do this largely by purchasing things or stealing things. You adorn yourself with songs and clothes and borrowed ideas and poses. In your thirties, you tell yourself the lie that you are still in your twenties.

The mental and physical diseases we face in old age are tied together through the cardiovascular system and metabolic system. A

Getting older is unavoidable, but falling apart is not.

From an evolutionary perspective, exercise tricks the brain into trying to maintain itself for survival despite the hormonal cues that it is aging.

the message I want to leave you with is that even as your body changes, exercise will keep your mind firm and taught.

La edad proporciona otras interpretaciones, por supuesto. Las venas se endurecen, lo mismo que las opiniones.

Parte del problema de crecer y hacerse mayor es que los mitos de la infancia desaparecen.

Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.

You have many years to livedo things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.