Quotes About Aging

The older you get the more you live in the past

todos morimos, envejecemos y enfermamos. La existencia o la vida, como veremos más adelante, es impermanente, y por lo tanto nuestras fuentes de apego se agotarán, nos guste o no. Si aceptaras esta premisa con todo tu ser no tendrías apegos.

You ask what the finest life span would be? To live until you reach wisdom.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. I

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

At nine, all fathers are perfect. At twenty-nine, they're not so perfect.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

We are lucky if our parents are still alive when we get old enough to appreciate them.

The thing already looks like its best days were decades ago.

Did you know when you look in the mirror, you're actually seeing a slightly younger version of yourself?" "Is that so?" she mumbles, her eyes darting to the next table, which is piled high with cheap makeup that looks half-used. "Yes. It has to do with the time it takes light to travel between the mirror and the person standing in front of it.

It's been so long since I heard that someone died of natural causes.

Madeline Singer had recently achieved two things that surprised her: a senior citizen discount; and the legal right to date.

Getting older is definitely not for sissies." But then neither, it seemed, was marriage.

At forty-five not even expensive highlights and a boatload of Lycra could disguise the fact that her body had given up its struggle against gravity.

began coaching old

I burst out crying because I realized something right then and there: death was going to take her someday. Because she'd grow old and wrinkly, you see, and fill up with pain until it extinguished her, and it just ... seemed intolerable. Shouldn't it? I mean, even a diamond is forever, and a diamond can't grip your finger.

that Ruth's power as a player was gone. He was thirty-nine years old and his hard living had caught up with him.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

What is death? Fundamentally it is not extinction and those seconds when life ends, but the slow decline that precedes it, that creeping debility that extends over years: the time in which a person is still there and yet not there, in which he can still imagine that although his prime is long since past, it lingers yet. So circumspectly has nature organized our death!

A chi gli chiedeva reminiscenze della sua gioventù, il professore rispondeva che non può esserci niente del genere e che i ricordi, a differenza delle calcografie e delle lettere, non riportano una data. Le cose si conservano nella memoria e solo con la riflessione una persona riesce a sistemarle in un ordine temporale.

To my surprise, I find the most relevant commentary on a marriage that continues into the sunset years comes from the radical German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, in an atypically practical frame of mind, wrote, 'When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everthing else in marriage is transitory.

When you're young you say, "If I become a vegetable, pull the plug!" You get older, you hedge a little. "If I'm a turnip, kill me. If I'm a trendier vegetable, like radicchio, mist me twice a day and trim the wilted leaves."

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.