Quotes About Aging

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Oh ! Les vieilleries ! Vieilles lettres, vieux vêtements, vieux objets dont on ne veut pas se débarrasser. Comme la Nature a bien compris que, tous les ans, elle doit changer de feuilles, de fleurs, de fruits et de légumes, et faire du fumier avec les souvenirs de son année ! (19 octobre 1906)

Nach Elenas Meinung hatte eine Frau in der ersten Lebenshälfte das Schminken nicht nötig, während es in der zweiten nicht mehr half.

Das Leben beginnt nun einmal auf der Höhe seiner Kraft, um sich von diesem Punkt aus, immer abwärts führend, seinem Ende zu nähern. Ein grober dramaturgischer Fehler.

Jede Anekdote endete allerdings mit der Feststellung, warum es sich trotzdem lohnte, eine Rossfrau zu lieben: Ihr Hintern blieb bis ins hohe Alter straff, sie wollte keine Kinder und ging nicht fremd.

My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It's the only way to ignore that the rest of the world regards you as an artifact, that your culture has faded beyond the horizon, leaving you adrift on your tiny, solitary life raft.

People are like fine wines. If they start off good, they only get better with age.

Edmund Bridgerton had died at the age of thirty-eight. And Anthony simply couldn't imagine ever surpassing his father in any way, even in years.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

As you get older, your injuries don't come with an anecdote any more, they just come.

I wrestled for 14 or 15 years. I've got a bunch of injuries, I'm tired, I'm getting old, I'm getting some grey hair now.

The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

I played until I felt like it. Some have to retire due to injuries or other issues ahead of time. But I played until I was 40 years old.

People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn't enough funding in the system. And there's a whole number of injustices.

I even love getting older, and knowing maybe I can't do one thing as well, but then trying to figure out how to do something else. That inner drive, I have it every day.

'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

Alzheimer's is such an insidious disease.