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Quotes About Aging

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
~ Horace
There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
~ Joe Gallivan
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
~ John Milton
when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
~ Jose Saramago
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
~ Joseph Addison
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
~ Joseph Joubert
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
~ Aeschylus
Time, the greatest thief of all.
~ Ally Carter
Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.
~ Betty White
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.
~ Christopher Reeve
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
~ Cyril Connolly
It tickles me, my daughter said that to me. She said, "Mommie, why is it that every time they say your name they put your age right behind it?"
~ Diana Ross
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.
~ Gennifer Flowers
The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
~ Ingrid Bergman
By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.
~ Jacob Braude
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.
~ Kate Beckinsale
When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.
~ Michael Drayton
Time destroys everything.
~ Monica Bellucci
There will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.
~ Tim McGraw