Quotes About Aging

Serena maintains today that as George grew older he also grew out of his mind. Many men do, in my experience. Life does not come up to their expectations: they grow older, and disappointed. At fifty they realise others have passed them by, made more money, won more respect. Their sexual drive fades and the self-esteem that goes with it. They take to litigation and shake their fists at other drivers.

The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

y en el oscurísimo beso punzante debajo de las almohadas. Pero a viejo de las manos traslúcidas dirá: Amor, amor, amor, aclamado por millones de moribundos;

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

In the darkness I thought of Fyodorovich, deep in the Kolyma taiga. It was the eleventh of October, and already, I imagined, the first light snows had dusted the area around Sunny Lake. I pictured the old man sitting alone in the sun by the lakeshore, smoking a Prima and gazing skyward as the last of the whooper swans flew south, squawking and trumpeting as they went.

No quiero apestar a orina de anciano. No quiero que me falte el aliento después de subir con dificultad media docena de escalones. No quiero que nadie me tenga que cortar las uñas de los pies porque no las

Todo, todo se queda atrás, la siniestra vejez y la plenitud irrisoria.

Todo en la vejez es impropio: matar, reírse, el sexo, y sobre todo seguir viviendo.

Así pasa cuando se vive mucho, que ya no hay amigos ni enemigos y por fin vemos claro: el gran enemigo del hombre es el Tiempo, su meticulosa obra de destrucción.

Si yo hubiera nacido un poco antes, me habría muerto un poco después. ¡Pero ay, nací en pleno triunfo de la medicina, cuando los viejitos siguen viviendo muertos! Y aquí me tienen viendo pasar carros y carros y carros, como las vacas a la orilla de la carretera en un potrero. Y gente.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Ta c? ng? r?ng càng già ta càng c?ng r?n h?n nh?ng ngh? th? là sai: ngày nào ta c?ng ph?i lòng, sau m?i ánh m?t, qua m?i ti?ng c??i trong su?t nh? pha lê mà trái tim không thôi nhung nh?. Ch? ??n gi?n là ta kìm ch? vì quá bi?t m?i chuy?n s? d?n ??n ?âu.

Kad stariš, nisi sretniji, samo niže postavljaš letvicu.

Mille järgi me aru saame, et oleme vanad? [...] Selle järgi, et hakkame endast nooremate üle vinguma. Nende innukus käib meile närvidele, nende illusioonid väsitavad meid. Oleme vanad, kui just eelmisel õhtul oleme öelnud ühele 1976. aastal sündinud neiule: "Seitsekümmend kuus? Mäletan küll, see oli põuane aasta.

Ya no hay adultos, lo único que queda son niños de todas las edades. Escribir un libro sobre mi infancia es, pues, hablar de mí en presente. Peter Pan es amnésico.

Il se trouve que je n'ai pas le choix : je dois me souvenir pour vieillir.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Don't trust anybody over a hundred and fifty years old, particularly if they look thirty. Anybody who gets that old in Caverna loses something, and they don't get it back. They can't feel properly any more. They're hollow inside, and all they got left is a hunger – a hunger to feel. They're like . . . great big trap-lanterns, all blind gaping need, and thousands of teeth, with decades to come up with tricks and schemes.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.