Quotes About Aging

Listen to people in their 80s. They have looked across the street at death for a decade. They know what's vital.

He smiled hesitantly and she smiled back in the same fashion, but he was unsettled by the thought that Muriel had undergone a transformation. Some of the stuff that had come out of her mouth lately, about God or babies, made him wonder if she'd had a brain transplant at some point in the last ten years. It was funny what happened to people after forty, when they realized that our place here on earth was leased, not owned.

At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades…I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination…These people are with me. It's just a stage of your life when the death of people doesn't banish them out of your consciousness, They're part of the light in your head.

the wide kingdom reverted to Beowulf. He ruled it well for fifty winters, grew old and wise as warden of the land

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

When your legs get weaker time starts running faster.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Time is a kindly god.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.