Quotes About Aging

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.

Yeah, tons... fillers and botox and I've definitely made some mistakes but it's hard to watch yourself get older on television.

Tons of people struggle to pronounce words, remember information, and string sentences together, particularly as they age. Biden, already the oldest president in U.S. history, is no exception.

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Too much collagen will damage the skin. You will get collagen overload.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

A lot of times I'll be playing roles for which I'm too long in the tooth, but people who go see musicals don't seem to worry too much about that.

It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. I don't know if we're supposed to give answers to people, because I don't know if we have any.

Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.

Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charges are added to the debt every day, and the total amount owed grows over time.

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

my mother's wits were now in an attic of her head which had neither door nor stair, or at least none that I could find.

The burden of getting older was borne alone

But we are never old to ourselves. That is because at close of day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

What is this growing old, when even the engine that holds our despair and hope in balance begins to fail us.

Oh dear, oh dear, I sat there. I am sitting there still. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands.

I started to cry, not like a child, but like the old woman I am, slow, slight tears that no one sees, no one dries.