Quotes About Aging

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

La mort des parents ne devient définitive que le jour où leur enfants ne sont plus là pour les évoquer. Alors la mémoire de ce qu'ils étaient vraiment s'abolit. Ils survivront, brumeux, dans les souvenirs de leurs petits-enfants, qui ne les auront connus que vieux

Les vieux n'ont pas seulement soixante-dix ans, ils ont encore leurs dix ans, et aussi leurs vingt annsm et puis trente et puis quarante et puis cinquante et en prime les quatre-vingts piges qu'ils voient déjà poindre

Dire ce que c'est la vieillesse c'est chercher à décrire la neige à des gens qui vivent sous les Tropiques. Pourquoi leur gâcher la vie sans soulager la sienne ?

La nuit, les choses vous apparaissent livides et sinistres. On pourrait préciser qu'à partir de l'âge de vieillesse, elles apparaissent tout simplement comme elles sont. Et le matin, on retrouve l'idiote, la délicieuse joie de vivre. Et la folie des projets. Comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.

I've got an awful lot of unpublished stuff lying around, but at my age, it's hard to go to auditions and rehearsals and all the rest. Besides, you get frightened. You can stand success, but you're afraid of failure.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older because it's such a privilege to not die prematurely, she tells them as the night draws in around her kitchen table in her cosy terraced house in Brixton

d'ailleurs, il n'y a pas de quoi avoir honte de vieillir notamment quand toute la race humaine est concernée même si parfois elle semble être la seule parmi ses amies à vouloir fêter les années qui passent parce que c'est un privilège de ne pas mourir prématurément, leur dit-elle (...)

Die da alt sind, hör ich, haben nichts zu hoffen Denn nur Zeit schafft's, und an Zeit gebricht's. Doch uns Jungen, hör ich, steht das Tor weit offen Freilich, hör ich, steht es offen nur ins Nichts.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

And standing there... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world...the tears of the aged...for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

That was the trouble of being old. Your body no longer obeyed you. It did unruly and unreasonable things. An eye suddenly might not see for a moment. Your knees gave out at the wrong time, so that when you thought you were walking north, you might find yourself going a little northwest. Your brain, too, had that same flighty trick. You might be speaking of something and forget it temporarily,—your mind going off at a little to the northwest, too, so to speak.

Poor Christine! She had long ago spent the days of her young motherhood in the marketplace, and now that they were all squandered, she had so few pleasant things left to remember. So she crouched low over the dull embers of a few half-memories in order to warm her old heart.

When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van.

I heard she married some hunter, well, they all marry hunters, so did I, ha! You're just as foolish I expect, young girls are, some lad catches your eye and there's your whole life gone, snap, a lap full of babies and grandbabies and it's all over, you're an old woman knitting at the hearth and that's it, that's it!' I could not wait to get out of there. She shrank my whole life to the size of a poppy seed, and ate it.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Getting old ain't for sissies.

Old age is no place for sissies!

Old Age Ain't For Sissies. Taken from a Bette Davis quote.