Quotes About Aging

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

And I think, I'm so fucking lonely. I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone.

an old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl.

She began walking away from me, down the hallway—luminous white living rooms and sitting rooms and reading rooms blooming out on all sides—and I studied her. It was the first time we'd seen each other in almost a year. My hair was a different color—brown from red—but she didn't seem to notice. She looked exactly the same, though, not much older than I am now, although she's in her late forties. Glowing pale skin

The old people sit, gray and pudding-like

them since they were built. The old people sit, gray and pudding-like

From age sixteen to age twenty, a woman's body is a temple. From twenty-one to forty-five, it's an amusement park. From forty-five on, it's a terrarium.

But if you believe that your best years are behind you, you've guaranteed they are; I'm going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.

An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

Mr. Kermit has a flip phone that's probably as old as his car. There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, and Tennessee Williams has about five, and Samuel Beckett one--and maybe a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

And at some length Dr. Bogart spoke of a period in which skies were bluer, water purer, potatoes better-grained than now. I know the speech. It is the tirade of the old.

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.

And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

Cuando somos jóvenes somos una jungla de complicaciones. Nos simplificamos a medida que envejecemos.

All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.

As one grows old I think one becomes more attached to family things- to houses and graves.

The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.