Quotes About Aging

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

I don't define myself by my body's ability to execute gorgeous asana anymore. I'm all about taking care of my temple and understanding that its requirements change with age and time.

When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

Time is the enemy of identity

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.