Quotes About Aging

My parents, who are older, think they don't have to be careful, so they eat the most contaminated fish in hopes that the less contaminated fish will be there for younger people.

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature's greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.

Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids and bankrupts.

Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She

Me?utim, ako brojim godine, nije tome davno što sam se rodio, ali imam brojne uspomene koje osje?am kako me tište, kao što tište starce svi dani što su ih proživjeli; ?ini mi se katkada da sam trajao dugim stolje?ima, i da moje bi?e sadržava u sebi ostatke od tisu?u prošlih života.

La vie est une côte. Tant qu'on monte, on regarde le sommet, et on se sent heureux; mais, lorsqu'on arrive en haut, on aperçoit tout d'un coup la descente, et la fin, qui est la mort. Ça va lentement quand on monte, mais ça va vite quand on descend. A votre âge, on est joyeux. On espère tant de choses, qui n'arrivent jamais d'ailleurs. Au mien, on n'attend plus rien... que la mort.

For some years he had felt weighing on him the burden of loneliness which sometimes overwhelms old bachelors. He had been strong, active and cheerful, spending his days in sport, and his evenings in amusement. Now he was growing dull, and no longer took interest in anything. Exercise tired him, suppers and even dinners made him ill, while women bored him as much as they had once amused him.

YaÅŸlanmak, size yaÅŸam katan, sizi seven, sizi okÅŸayan, size hoÅŸ sözler söyleyip kalbinizi ?s?tan ve sizi rahatlatan insanlarla güzeldir.

One look at Scott was enough to tell you that the twig between his legs hadn't had its bark peeled back in a coon's age. Mr. Secretary ought to read Surgeon Kittson's annual

One look at Scott was enough to tell you that the twig between his legs hadn't had its bark peeled back in a coon's age.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

As I grow older I am unpleasantly impressed by the fact that giving each human being but one life is a bad scheme.

If heaven is merciful, it will some day efface from my consciousness the sight that I saw, and let me live my last years in peace.

Then suddenly he remembered that he had once intended, as a pastime, to count the wrinkles in his grandmother's face. But now he found that he no longer desired to count them; but they remained close keeping somewhere in his soul, all of them, each and every one.

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

Women are attracted to artists, of course, as they are to doctors and prisoners on death row. The powerful and the vulnerable. If you want to continue to get laid, particularly as you get older, that's where to head, boy.

But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.

I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?

Growing old isn't for pussies.

Old age is the new childhood.

Starenje nije za slabice.

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the voices again.

I met Auden late in his life and mine—at an age when the easy knowledgeable intimacy of friendships concluded in one's youth can no longer be attained, because not enough life is left, or expected to be left, to share with one another. Thus, we were very good friends but not intimate friends.

Weißt du, warum man so auf seinen Schlaf erpicht ist? Nur um ein paar Tage länger jung auszusehen? Ach, und wenn dann der Schlaf kommt und man träumt, dann ist man uralt, und kein Engel ist da; man liegt da wie ein Stück Holz im Moor, ewig, und kann nicht sterben. Und das alles zur Strafe, weil man ein einziges Mal wach gewesen ist, als der Engel da saß und man dachte: Nun brauche ich nie mehr zu schlafen.