Quotes About Aging

Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life." No more annual exams, cancer screenings, mammograms, and any other measure "expected of a responsible person with health insurance….Not only do I reject the torment of a medicalized death, but I refuse to accept a medicalized life.

Han rolled over, threw up a considerable quantity of water, and said, "I'm getting too old for this." Chewbacca concurred

the houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.

Was this what they meant by hot flashes? But they didn't feel hot. Her body felt full and heavy and slow and human and absent somehow, just a weight to be carried forward without its enthusiastic cycles of fertility and rest, the crests and valleys she had never realized she counted on so much. Dead weight? Was that what she was now; an obsolete female biding its time until death?

The women that loomed large in my life were all getting small.

Were the beaux less generous over time? Her assets less marketable? If she had lived to be old, would she have resided in a teacup, to be sipped at intervals beneath some gray moustache?

The backs of his hands remind him of paper burning in the fireplace, the moment the taut membrane goes slack into a thousand wrinkles, just before it withers to ash and air.

That hand looked a hundred years old. Knuckles and gristle.

I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.

Too much adrenaline will age you before your time. I've heard that said. What I know for sure is, it will push you too fast through your day.

That's just old people shit," I told her. "The cost of doing business with them. They've got their rock-hard stools and dried-up old poon, what else are they going to wave in your face? They press the know-it-all thing as their sole advantage.

I love single malts. Especially the old Islay whiskies. They say age removes the fire but leaves the warmth. I like that." You

I played baccarat at the upscale Bellagio; roulette at the off-strip Rio; craps at the fading Riviera, whose attempts to match the gayness and glitter around her felt forced, artificial, like makeup layered on by a woman who recognizes she was never beautiful to begin with and has now, in addition, grown colorless and old.

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

She was eighty-five, and her sleep was as thin as her skin.

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

Envelhecer não é para fracos, pois não?

Time passes and everything gets bigger except us.

When you're 21, life is a road map. It's only when you get to be 25 or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're 40 are you entirely sure. By the time you're 60, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

Aging teaches us to follow our life force inward. It is an object lesson in how awareness is gradually drawn towards the center...

The body takes about seven years to replace all its cells. As we age original factory parts get harder to come by. We accept seconds and rebuilds. Some are even transplanted with recycled parts. We get less miles to the gallon, and eventually, after several towings, we must abandon the body by the side of the road. From there we must go the rest of the way alone with just our heart for guidance.

Why do you suppose it is... that the idea of being young again is so appealing when being young the first time around was such hell?

I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.

Time has an annoying way of removing tarnish