Quotes About Aging

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Currently, we are working to deliver our anti-aging gene therapies to terminally ill people for compassionate care. Although, in the future we think that preventative medicine against aging would begin at a much younger age.

Not working makes you ill, sad, depressed. It ages you.

I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven't seen her this many a year and haven't been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

I actually think it will be possible one day to be immortal.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.

The dreadlocks were easy to maintain: I got up in the morning and flicked my head. If they got too big, I'd pull them apart every now and again. In the end, I got too old for them.

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

We all try to increase our length of life, but we all have to pass. It's highly interesting as a lyricist.

When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and I have an appreciation that I didn't have when I was in my 20s.

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.