Quotes About Aging

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

I didn't want to be the 40-year-old still on MTV doing 'Real World.' I loved the show. I loved the people on it, but I had a different set of goals.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

Obviously, aging has a certain amount of mellowing process because there's certain things you realise you were doing when you were younger that were plain ridiculous, stupid.

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

When you're younger, you have a perfect plan for your life: I thought I would be engaged at 24, married at 26, have my first child at 28 and my second at 30. But as you get closer to each age, you realise it's unfeasible.

When I was younger, 15 years or 20 years seemed like a really long time. But, as you journey though life, you don't realise where the years disappear.

As I grow older, I realise that just because I'm so obsessed with the truth, it doesn't mean that everyone else in my life is equally comfortable with it.

As you get older, you realise you can't worry about mistakes; you just worry about playing, and I've been doing that.

As you get older, you start to realise negativity is really bad.

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

I realised as I was getting older, I was eating healthier and healthier, and I realised I didn't really need to eat meat.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising.

Prince Philip prides himself on being a realist. He knows he is not going to live for ever.

At the end of the day, at 49 years old, it's realistic to believe that a Terminator has a heart.