Quotes About Aging

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or arouses a necessary sympathy.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Well, I mean I have forgotten how to go anywhere alone. There are things you have to do. Like throw money into a toll basket on a highway. I'd pull up to it now and panic. Or what if I had to hail a cab? It's hard to believe, but I used to be able to do things when I was twenty that are impossible now [...] It's more than the physical task. It's ...a vision of yourself. If you don't see yourself as being able to do it, then you can't, no matter how easy it is.

He humped the sack over his shoulder and went on up the path. And Henry, picking up his much smaller bundle, forbore to offer to carry the larger one. To be no longer young, with all the world in front of you, must be bad enough, without having it brought forcibly to your notice.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

Like fine wine, I do not travel well. Sure, when I was young, fresh, low in acidity and not so tannic, I was a more adventurous spririt.

I guess it was no secret I'd been unpleasantly startled to find myself suddenly hitting the big 4-0. You'd have thought the previous thirty-nine years were sufficient warning.

I felt such a well of tenderness for this dear old body. Every piece of it proclaimed how tired it was, but it was lovely, too. Her history was written in it, in the stretch marks left by my father, in the surgery scar on her abdomen and the puckered burn scar on the inside of her left arm, in the simple toll of ninety years of fighting gravity.

You don't get older during the time spent in church, he told us. He pushed a shopping cart with a few rags and a bottle of Windex in it. We gave him a dollar.

Combien d'amours ont fait crier ton lit ? Combien d'années ont ridé tes yeux ? Qui a vidé tes seins épuisés ? Je t'ai regardé avec mes yeux de plomb Et mes illusions ont éclaté Laissant derrière elles Ta vieillesse Qui ne peut répondre à mes questions.

The older you get, the more bad things happen," he said. "Good ones, too. People you care about start dying. There's no getting around it.

porque el vuelo es corto y él ha vivido mucho.

I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.

Someday every second you have spent hating will show on your face.

She is not only beautiful on the outside, but inwards as well. When she is old and not so lovely, she will be well loved. But you! Your beauty is on the outside alone. If it were taken away from you, only a querulous, evil-minded, vicious woman would remain.

You see a lady sitting there and she's not doing anything and you tend to forget that of course she wasn't always a little old lady. There's all this colored stuff inside her, it's all inside, bubbling.

Everything I do is autobiographical. I'm into old ladies because I've been one for some considerable time now.

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.