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Quotes About Aging

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
~ Christian Lacroix
When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.
~ Clive Lloyd
Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.
~ Dolly Parton
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.
~ June Diane Raphael
O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
~ Maeve Binchy
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.
~ Mary Margaret McBride
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.
~ Paul Gauguin
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
~ Ovid
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.
~ Robert Breault
A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.
~ Robert Winston
I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
~ Rod Stewart
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.
~ Theocritus
You look older." "Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
~ Veronica Roth
Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?
~ William Habington
The worst old age is that of the mind.
~ William Hazlitt
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
~ Eric Clapton
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
~ Erma Bombeck
Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left
~ George Clooney
His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
~ George Peele
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
~ Hermann Hesse