Quotes About Aging

Aprender a envejecer es una maestría,

Para que el envejecimiento se acepte sabiamente, así como las circunstancias adversas por las que se va pasando, la personalidad ha de estar bien estructurada, sobre un pasado positivo y un entorno sociofamiliar grato. Hay

entonces brota la ansiedad ante la menor amenaza de enfermedad, de incomodidad, de fracaso económico, de pérdida de la belleza, incluso de vejez. Esta ansiedad es a menudo anticipada, es decir, surge antes de que realmente llegue el problema, ya que existe la sensación de incapacidad para superarlo, con lo que se teme que se produzca el propio desmoronamiento y la «disolución del yo», que es el fundamento último de la ansiedad.

Su vida está en declive, tiene que reconocerlo. Pero el mundo también, y eso le ofrece no poco consuelo.

Envejecer es un desastre. Lo lógico sería que todos los que ven declinar sus vidas gritaran de espanto, no se resignaran a un futuro de mandíbula colgando y babeo irremediable, y aún menos a ese brutal despedazarse que es la muerte, porque morir es rasgarse en mil pedazos que empiezan a desperdigarse vertiginosamente para siempre, sin testigos.

Torschlusspanik. It basically means that you're seeing the window of your life closing and you're terrified.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

For a few years when I was at Cleveland Clinic, it was on the top ten U.S. News list for geriatric medicine even though we didn't even have a geriatrics department!

The elderly can also participate in some of these activities in senior centers, but there they can do them only with other old people, and often that makes them feel stigmatized, as if old is all they are. For many seniors, the library is the main place they interact with people from other generations.

As of 2016, more than twelve million Americans aged sixty-five and above live by themselves, and the ranks of those who are aging alone is growing steadily in much of the world.

When your body was beautiful, you acted pretty ugly. Now that you're ugly, you should beautify your actions. Time has made your body feeble: Yesterday a peacock, today a porcupine.

No," I said, "I don't remember." But my best guess is, so far at least, that I only have Sometimer's, not Alzheimer's.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.

You wait. I'll be the crankiest elder the Clans have ever seen. Mousefur will seem sweet and gentle next to me!

Why was Sandynose such an old badger

But the grass had grown up again around the tree trunk, thick and luxuriant, making a comfortable home for the elderly cats whose service to the Clan was done.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

En lugar de envejecer, enguapezco. Mis canas dan ganas.

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.

The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.