Quotes About Aging

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

But, you know, when a man turns fifty, the weirdest and most disappointing thing happens. Your doctor loses interest in your testicles. And takes an overwhelming interest in your arsehole. It's the strangest thing. Because the chances of testicular cancer recede as you get older, and the chances of prostate cancer increase. Isn't life a fucking bowl of cherries?

We all have a different image of what old is, and if you were exposed to senior citizens at a young age, as I was, it can color your soul with terror.

Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word.

Whoever first said it was right: old age is not for sissies.

If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!

If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it's with our aging parents.

Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personalities in America. Afterward she took me aside and told of the emptiness in her life. "My beauty is gone," she said, "I am getting old, I'm living on alcohol, and I have nothing to live for.

Old age has its compensations. More than ever I see each day as a gift from God. It is also a time to reflect back on God's goodness over the years and an opportunity to assure others that God truly is faithful to His promises.

Life can grow sweeter and more rewarding as we grow older if we possess the presence of Christ. Sunsets are always glorious. It is Christ who adds colors, glory, and beauty to man's sunsets.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Ever since we were little, you've always been there for me. I'm so glad we're still friends, and I bet that one day we'll be sitting side-by-side in our rocking chairs at the nursing home laughing at all of our crazy times together.

Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up

When does a fellow step aside? I don't want to go off in a state of senility, as some have, even on this Court, in the past. I don't want to reach that point. And, of course, each of us is the last to know when he's reached that point. Just how much longer I'll go, I don't know.

Since I've retired, I sometimes not only don't know what day it is, or what month it is, I have trouble remembering what year it is. I can remember when I was six years old exactly what was happening, and I can't remember what happened yesterday.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Some, like Chaplin, Polanski and Michael Jackson, found teenage companions in middle age, trying to retrieve or reconfigure a childhood they never had.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I still feel 30, except when I try to run.