Quotes About Aging

'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried about - if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind.

In your 20s, you are worried about body issues, your weight, how you are dressed. In your 30s, you're like, 'Oh my God, I am getting old. I am going to enjoy everything.'

When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You're not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Getting older doesn't worry me, what does is getting unfit.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime.

I usually finish things in the last second. But I think, as I've gotten older, I don't worry about it, and I just rock it.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I've just turned 60 and, looking back, I realise all the time I spent worrying I achieved nothing.

It's surprising how you can behave like a 16-year-old in your 60s, or a 17-year-old in your 70s. You know, it's exactly the same. You fall in love with somebody, you start worrying why the phone is not ringing and thinking, 'Can I ring him?'

I think my biological clock ticking is more worrying for me than getting the right roles.

When you get to my age, 59, the thought of getting the Latin dress and the Latin shoes on is a bit worrying. Your heart and your mind is always willing, but sometimes your body just says What are you doing?!'

My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a molecular level how a neuron dies after a stroke, a seizure, Alzheimer's, brain aging, and what these stress hormones do to make it worse.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you're over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing's worse than saggy duds.