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Quotes About Aging

You know, from what I've seen, at twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional. And by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful. By thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate.
~ Douglas Coupland
I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's usually thirty to thirty-four. Nobody is forty in their head. When it comes to your internal age, chin wattles and relentless liver spots mean nothing.
~ Douglas Coupland
When you're young, you feel like life hasn't yet begun, like life is scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays - whenever. But suddenly you're old, and the scheduled life never arrived. I find myself asking, 'Well, then, exactly what was it I was doing with all that time I had before I thought my life would begin?
~ Douglas Coupland
I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to every conceivable aspect of life—wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
~ Douglas Coupland
Wine is like many of the finer things in life, which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.
~ Douglas Preston
So whatever you think of me, don't pity me. I had a beautiful life. I was loved, admired, feted, copied, mocked, treasured, and feared. I am one hundred years old and I am no longer afraid of anything.
~ Adrienne Sharp
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
~ Aeschylus
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
~ Aeschylus
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
~ Aeschylus
But time growing old teaches all things.
~ Aeschylus
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
~ Aeschylus
Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
~ Aeschylus
Time is the best killer.
~ Agatha Christie
Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple
~ Agatha Christie
What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.
~ Agatha Christie
That's the depressing part of places like this. Guest houses run by broken-down gentlepeople. They're full of failures—of people who have never got anywhere and never will get anywhere, of people who—who have been defeated and broken by life, of people who are old and tired and finished.
~ Agatha Christie
Profesi suami yang paling baik bagi wanita adalah arkeolog. Karena semakin tua si wanita, suami akan semakin tertarik kepadanya.
~ Agatha Christie
Life is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple
~ Agatha Christie
When youth begins to pass, fun isn't fun any longer.
~ Agatha Christie
Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.
~ Agatha Christie
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
~ Agatha Christie
They all fuss about me so," she said. "They rub it in that I'm an old woman." "And you don't feel like one." "No, I don't, Jane. In spite of all my aches and pains–and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just like a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don't believe it.
~ Agatha Christie
Edward turned to Miss Marple. "It's like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn't trust anybody." "Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.
~ Agatha Christie
Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to be carried out on the next or following days.
~ Agatha Christie