Quotes About Aging

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

The elderly in China play mah-jong. American senior citizens go on cruises and play golf. Europeans visit museums, tour wineries and dine at Michelin-star restaurants. Indian elders visit temples.

We all begin to die from the moment we are born. Some do it faster than others. All we can do is enjoy our lives.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.

If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city. ? Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Andesite Press, August 8, 2015)

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Consider rereading, how risky it is, especially when the book is one that you loved. Always the chance that it won't hold up, that you might, for whatever reason, not love it as much. When this happens, and to me it happens all the time (and more and more as I get older), the effect is so disheartening that I now open old favorites warily.

The only thing harder than seeing yourself grow old is seeing the people you've loved grow old.

Youth burdened with full knowledge of just how sad and painful aging is I would not call youth at all.

It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.

Last night, she'd looked like a million bucks. Tonight, she looked like fifty with change.

I'm getting older so I've started to smile more, because I want the crow's feet to go up.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

Amai tua madre assai, ma lei non fu mai il mio grande amore,il più importante. Quello non mi abbandona ancora e alleggerisce il peso degli anni. Quando avverrà sarà il momento di morire......L'amore per se stessi. Il rispetto per se stessi. Tu devi amarti. Piacerti. Soltanto allora gli altri ti ameranno. A casa tua l'ospite migliore sei tu, prima di tutti gli altri. Quelli vengono dopo.

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Time ... antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.And from which earth, and grave, and dust,The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

El pasado es frágil, tan frágil como quebradizos los huesos con los años, tan frágil como los fantasmas que vemos en las ventanas o los sueños que se descomponen al despertar y no dejan atrás nada aparte de una sensación de inquietud o angustia, o, menos a menudo, una extraña satisfacción.