Quotes About Aging

Hace tiempo que lo de envejecer está asociado para mí a cierta inquietud. En general el espacio me importa una mierda, pero tengo problemas con el tiempo.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

What do you get, another day older and deeper in dept

We ourselves are the last to notice that we are not making any headway. It is brought to our notice from the outside; former students suddenly emerge as our superiors. As we grow older, the respect we receive diminishes: the disproportion between our age and our position becomes evident, first to other people and finally to ourselves. Then it is time to retreat.

L'infanzia smette ufficialmente quando si aggiunge il primo zero agli anni. Smette ma non succede niente, si sta dentro lo stesso corpo di marmocchio inceppato delle altre estati, rimescolato dentro e fermo fuori.

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.

Che me ne faccio delle girandole dei verbi? Non sono il padrone del tempo, sono il suo asino. Va bene per gli scrittori il passato e il suo ceraunavolta. E il futuro a comodo agli indovini che si arricchiscono coi pronostici. Io conosco le vite che durano un giorno e arrivare a notte è già morire vecchi.

But now the days are short,I'm in the Autumn of the year,And now I think of my lifeAs vintage wine from the old kegs.From the brim to the dregsIt poured sweet and clear;It was a very good year!

Meg had grown older; she would never be quite so young again as she had been before that red sunset sank into her soul. There was a deeper light in her eyes; such tears as she had wept clear the sight till life becomes a thing more distinct and far-reaching.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

Passamos pelas coisas sem as ver, gastos, como animais envelhecidos: se alguém chama por nós não respondemos, se alguém nos pede amor não estremecemos, como frutos de sombra sem sabor, vamos caindo ao chão, apodrecidos.

The terrible threat against life, he said in his book God Is Not Yet Dead, is not death, nor pain, nor any variation on the disasters that we so obsessively try to protect ourselves against with our social systems and personal stratagems. The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years."6

The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years.

pois nada é mais incômodo que envelhecer ao lado de um estranho.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

God, these old men!How they pray for death! How heavythey find this life in the slow drag of days!And yet, when Death comes near them,You will not find one who will rise and walk with him, not one whose years are still a burden to him.

To be an adult is to be close to death.

Once the hag got upset she was apt to go downhill very fast and remember things like she was an orphan. People are often orphans when they are eighty-two, but it is true that when you have no mother or father you can feel very lonely at any age.

Now the old woman who had known him since his birth saw in the new lines round his eyes, the skin stretched tight across the cheekbones, the price paid by those who force themselves against their deepest nature, to excel in war.

Trenta, trentacinque, quaranta: gli anni erano sempre passati a farle visita come zie criticone, e sempre erano scomparsi senza lasciare traccia, senza fare rumore. E adesso ne era arrivato un altro.

As you get older, you do reflect more. They were great times, but the biggest thing we all had to deal with a lot more disappointment from an engineering point of view, there was not the reliability that there is now.

When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.