Quotes About Aging

Okay, honest answer: What's the first thing you think of when I say "prunes"? Half the people I know think of shuffleboard courts, retirement colonies, and their ancient relatives sipping prune juice for "regularity." But truth be told, this is one

Susceptibility to despair, disease, aging and death is universal. In the final analysis, we do not appear to be the architects of our own fragility.

What's the difference between being happy and being content?", "What things get better as you age?" and "What makes life more meaningful?

It is because we are born human that we are guaranteed a good dose of suffering. And chances are, if you or someone you love is not suffering now, they will be within five years, unless you are freakishly lucky. Rearing kids is hard, work is hard, aging, sickness and death are hard, and Jordan emphasized that doing all that totally on your own, without the benefit of a loving relationship, or wisdom, or the psychological insights of the greatest psychologists, only makes it harder.

Por que pregar susto na gente, Berrito desgraçado? Tu bem sabe que tenho o coração fraco, o médico recomendou que eu não me aborrecesse. Cada ideia tu tem, como posso viver sem tu, homem com parte com o tinhoso? Tou acostumada com tu, com as coisas malucas que tu diz, tua velhice sabida, teu jeito tão sem jeito, teu gosto de bondade. Por que tu me fez isso hoje? — e tomava da cabeça ferida na peleja, beijava-lhe os olhos de malícia.

La decadencia es ese tobogán que gobiernan los jóvenes: a partir de ahora las cosas son así, abuelo. Y la vejez consiste precisamente en no poder elegir y en tener que asimilarte por la fuerza a esa manga de ignorantes modernos que te ponen un revólver de futuro en la nuca. Se acabó lo que se daba. Te gusta o te vas, te adaptás o morís.

Vieja estaría pero se iba a morir cantando y con las plumas puestas.

Las viejas como la Peta Ponce tienen el poder de plegar y confundir el tiempo, lo multiplican y lo dividen, los acontecimientos se refractan en sus manos verrugosas como en el prisma más brillante, cortan el suceder consecutivo en trozos que disponen en forma paralela, curvan esos trozos y los enroscan organizando estructuras que les sirven para que se cumplan sus designios.

En los dormidos labios del viejo se ha posado, como una mariposa, una sonrisa: la idea que aleteaba en su corazón cuando le envolvió el sueño: ¡Grande, la vida!

Admiremos a los viejos por las superioridades que hayan poseído en la juventud. No incurramos en la simpleza de esperar una vejez santa, heroica o genial tras una juventud equívoca, mansa y opaca; la vejez no pone flores donde sólo había malezas, antes bien, siega las excelencias con su hoz niveladora.

El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.

el envejecer juntos es una forma de no envejecer

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

Oh so maddening, how memory works, or doesn't work, when you are old. Every square in a counterpane you owned when you were five, you remember the sequence, the colours. But then people were so important to you, and now even their names are melted away.

Like an old door, ever man past a certain age comes with historical warps and creaks of one kind or another, and a woman who wishes to put him to serious further use must expect to do a certain amount of sanding and planing.

At 70, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that "this too, shall pass.

In 1900, Europe accounted for a quarter of the world's population. By 2060, it may account for just 6%—and almost a third of these will be more than 65 years old." Europe does face severe demographic problems, but the size of a population is not highly correlated with power, and "predictions of Europe's downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.

Sorry, Bramblestar!" Purdy gasped. "I'm too old and stiff for this. I can't get up or down, so I'd better live here, okay?