Quotes About Aging

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.

Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

Time waits for no ovary.

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, geopolitically speaking, are expanding.

I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.