Quotes About Aging

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it.

Elizabeth's doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young man's dream baby. Now she was snoring with her mostly toothless mouth pointed at the ceiling. If there's a God, I think He needs to try a little harder.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities.

Rivers of wrinkles flowing down from the corners of this eyes and mouth.

At fifty-one you had to keep running just to escape the avalanche of your own past.

the brain doesn't age, although its ideas about the world may harden and there's a greater tendency to run off at the mouth about how things were in the good old days.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Agnes's expression was briefly wistful. Then she shrugged. "But on the bright side, they are quite old. Maybe some of them will die soon.

I ache, I rattle with supplements, and my grandchildren cannot believe I have ever been anything but prehistoric.

She tries to imagine Carl getting his pubic hair lasered to make sure he was attractive enough for her, and it's so unthinkable she laughs out loud. And now, because she is female and did all the things expected of her, she's been discarded for a younger, supposedly sweeter model.

None of us lasts forever, do we? If I'm honest, seeing her like that was an unwelcome reminder of my own mortality. Of what I had been. Of what we all must become.

I'm dreading it," says Corinne. "Somehow thirty-one sounds like you might only be just past thirty, still almost technically in your twenties. Thirty-two sounds ominously close to thirty-five.

He had told her a few weeks ago that being this age was like walking among snipers, that people he cared about were being picked off and there was nothing you could do and no way of telling who was next.