Quotes About Aging

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

I'm good with getting older, because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself. I can't imagine staying at one age. Ideally, I'd want to be 20 physically but 40 mentally.

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.

You swear you'll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up and on kitchen tables, you say "fuck" and "shit" a lot, and then one day, without warning, their words emerge from your mouth like long-dormant sleeper agents suddenly activated.

For the record, there are other visitors, a handful of pleasant-faced, middle-aged women, long-standing friends of my mother, attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off the rack at Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom

If I were an athlete I'd be past my prime. If I were a dog I'd be dead. Thirty . . . shit.

No one under eighty moves to Florida. Isn't that like a federal statute or something?

To have nothing when you're twenty is cool, it's expected, but to have nothing when you're halfway to seventy, softening and widening on a daily basis, is something altogether different. It's like setting out to drive cross-country without any gas money.