Quotes About Aging

A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed.

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

You can always tell an old cop car because however hard you scrub, it always smells of old cop.

even his incontinence —

It's a legitimate worry for an aging rocker that your music will become so out of date and toxically uncool, it will get your kids beaten up at school. But, hey, it's your job.

Talking is the disease of age.

No, I do know that I was born To age, misfortune, sickness, grief: But I will bear these with that scorn As shall not need thy false relief. Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam; But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.

Every time Quirke saw Mal nowadays his brother-in-law seemed a little more dry and dusty, as if an essential fluid was leaking out of him, steadily, invisibly. He leaned

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. I used to write more methodically, but one does not dress for private company as for a public ball. Perhaps 'tis only negligence.

I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old. I us'd to write more methodically. But one does not dress for private company as for a publick ball. 'Tis perhaps only negligence.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old.