Quotes About Aging

There is so little joy in any life, I will take this time with you until I must go." He smoothed a lock of hair from her face. "In our old age, we'll remember and be glad.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. —PIERS PAUL READ

Qué es la vida sino el tránsito de las espinillas a las arrugas en pos de la sabiduría?

Helen has reached an age when life itself has become fragile, when each day must be an only half-expected gift, when she knows there can be no future to talk about.

Isak Dinesen said that life is no more than a process for turning healthy young puppies into mangy old dogs and man but an exquisite instrument for converting the red wine of Shiraz into urine.

Each day he grew older and learned something new." Strong

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them. I am old. Walter

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se queda. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Habla, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se quedan. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Hablan, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

Getting old.... Not so limber, dear friend, time for the bone factory? The little blue van. Your hands are covered with tiny pepperoni. Your knees predict your face. Your back stabs you, on the left side, twice a day. The belly's been discussed. The soul's shrinking to a microdot. We're ordering your rocking chair, size 42. Would you like something in Southern pine?

Tengo este necio temor: el temor de ser vieja sin haber sido nunca joven de verdad.

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a constraint that we created so that we feel like we have control of something we have absolutely no control of.

I think what I realized is that I can't believe I made it to 50 years old.

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.