Quotes About Aging

With disillusioned smiles, we allow our young people to tempt or try out their passion, desire, and sensorality, knowing that one day they will be like us, weary and well behaved out of obligation.

A nascere sono buoni tutti.. Persino io sono nato! Ma poi bisogna divenire! DIVENIRE! Crescere, aumentare, svilupparsi, ingrossare... (senza gonfiare) accettare mutamenti (ma non mutazioni), maturare (senza avvizzire), evolvere (e valutare), progredire (senza rimbambire), durare (senza vegetare), invecchiare (senza troppo ringiovanire) e morire senza protestare

Shamron knew time could be hard on Russian men. they tended to age in the blink of an eye — young and virile one minute, wrinkled paper the next.

But I've come to realize that this continent is dying a slow death. Europe is receding quietly into history. It's old and tired, and its young are so pessimistic about the prospects of the future they refuse to have enough children to ensure their own survival. They believe in nothing but their thirty-five-hour workweek and their August vacation.

He thought she hung the moon. He actually believed this from time to time. He believed the moon wouldn't have been there but that she'd hung it. He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true. For her, his daughter. He had told her this when she was little to make her happy, and now that he was old he believed it, because it made him happy and because he was so very old. He

A velhice também faz isso: de repente todas as pessoas começam a se dirigir a você no diminutivo: calmantezinho, remedinho, incomodozinho. Como se o diminutivo minimizasse os problemas da idade.

Age eventually catches up and forces a person to reckon with what is important in life and what counts as achievement.

Approximately 50 percent of Americans have some form of insulin resistance, according to Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco.5 That percentage is even higher in adults older than forty-five. "In contrast to popular false beliefs, weight loss and health should not be a constant battle uphill through calorie restriction, which simply doesn't work," says Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt

Sometimes I look at myself and think, Is this it?, and then I think, Yes, it is. This is literally the best you will ever look. Tomorrow, you will look just a little bit worse, and this is how it will go, for ever.

You will become less organized as you get older.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Fugace è la giovinezza un soffio la maturità; poi avanza tremando vecchiaia e dura, dura un'eternità.

Dan, Sasha's savior on the bus visits after the accident] Remember this: All your life you're going to want your parents off your back. Then you realize when you get older, they're the ones that had your back. (YOU had my back -Sasha said. Dan shut his eyes for a moment.)

The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

That is what grandchildren are for — so that the old may also dream, a promise of a future in return for the lost past.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

I'll be seventy years old soon. Well, Nahum, if you asked me whether I shall die and be buried in a Jewish State I would tell you Yes; in ten years, fifteen years, I believe there will still be a Jewish State. But ask me whether my son Amos, who will be fifty at the end of this year, has a chance of dying and being buried in a Jewish State, and I would answer: fifty-fifty.

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.

Let's hope my aging brain hasn't failed us." "Yes," Lana added. "Let's hope we're not in Canada or Mexico by now." "Very funny.

When I am old, I hope to remember sadness unequivocally.

Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade That you and time together made.