Quotes About Aging

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

When old age knocks, even a mighty lion resort to eating frogs.

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.

One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle.

Aerobic exercise just twice a week halves your risk of general dementia. It cuts your risk of alzheimer's by 60 percent.

For example, if healthy 30-year-olds are sleep deprived for six days (averaging, in this study, about four hours of sleep per night), parts of their body chemistry soon revert to that of a 60-year-old.

Time, the subtle thief of youth

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.

When I am anxious about getting old, I battle unbelief with the promise: "Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save" (Isaiah 46:4).

Dear God: Why do you let people grow old? Signed: Conroy Early the next morning, I retrieved his answer. Conroy: Although I've created all of you, I often find the way you think quite puzzling. For me, the most beautiful moment on earth is old people. They are my human sunsets. Signed: God

The invitation to rot obliviously, to die without feeling it, to grow old looking young, is everywhere in this glorious, sunny, multi-colored city.

I'll bring pajamas " she said. "Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?" "Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

Her limbs shrivelled and brittle, her skin wrinkled like a dry peach, her mind like a sponge squeezed out, with trickles of memories now and then to moisten it. And then there was gin:

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.