Quotes About Aging

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late

As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. —John Adams

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.

we tend to think that "we approach death by one year for every year we age, but during the twentieth century, the average person approached death by just seven months for every year they aged.

As people ages, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days. And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it

The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.

Most hunter-gatherer tribes have plenty of people in their seventies and even some in their eighties. Though a Hadza woman's life expectancy at birth is 32.5 years, if she makes it to 45 she can expect to live another 21 years.

And no, the extra years of life will not be spent senile in a rocking chair. Of course the longer you live, the more of those years you'll live as an older person, with its inevitable aches and pains. But bodies that are better at resisting a mortal blow are also better at resisting the lesser assaults of disease, injury, and wear.

people today live far more years in the pink of health than their ancestors lived altogether, healthy and infirm years combined

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.4 And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it:

As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.4 And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it:5

It makes no sense to scrimp all your life so that you can have one hell of a ninetieth birthday bash.

The average American now retires at age 62. One hundred years ago, the average American died at age 51.

For many people the greatest fear raised by the prospect of a longer life is dementia, but another pleasant surprise has come to light: between 2000 and 2012, the rate among Americans over 65 fell by a quarter, and the average age at diagnosis rose from 80.7 to 82.4 years.

Also, since people tend to get less violent as they get older, keeping men in prison beyond a certain point does little to reduce crime.

As the decades pass, depressed people are more likely to die of suicide and other causes, so the old people who remain in a sample are the mentally healthier ones, making it seem as if everyone who was born long ago is mentally healthier.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.