Quotes About Aging

She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.

Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.

People mind so much less when old people die, which is dreadfully unfair! "He had a good innings," they say, as if that makes it tolerable, whereas when a child dies everyone knows it's the worst kind of tragedy. I believe every death is a tragedy!

Trainers All Turn Grey (after Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay') You buy your trainers new. They cost a bob or two. At first they're clean and white, The laces thick and tight. Then they must touch the ground – (You have to walk around). You learn to your dismay Trainers all turn grey.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

No lie ever reaches old age.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

No falsehood lingers on into old age.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

I have a body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

The youngest member of this ageing community was ex-variety artiste, Patrick L. Balls. Fifty-nine now, he spent out his remaining years pulling a rope lift and bottling fruit. He had once whistled Ave Maria for Queen Victoria. She wasn't present at the time, but nevertheless that's who he was whistling it for.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

I can't imagine myself at that age with all my troubles behind me and nothing left but pottering in the garden till the end.

Silver hair and wrinkles are earned.

People who exercise more and sleep better have longer telomeres.

YaÅŸlanmak, geçmiÅŸten art?k korku duymuyor olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil zaten.

L'amour coûte cher aux vieillards—I think that was the title of one of Balzac's most moving stories, and many could be written on the subject. But the old people who know most about it are happy

Alt werden heisst nichts anderes, als keine Angst mehr haben vor der Vergangenheit.

alguien realmente sabio debe aprender que la verdadera dignidad de la vejez y de su vida es la resignación. Las más bellas cartas, las más armoniosas, proceden de esta época de íntimo recogimiento.

Geburtstag ist ja Tag, wo man an sich denkt. (... Çünkü doÄŸum günü, insan?n kendi üzerinde düÅŸündüÄŸü bir gündür.)

At eighty-five, she had paid the inevitable tribute to old age. Her sight was failing, she was growing deaf, she had lost all her teeth, she walked with difficulty. To so proud, so autocratic a woman what could seem more terrible than to expose her infirmities to hostile eyes?

Vieillir ne signifie assurément rien de plus que de n'avoir plus peur de son passé

Envelhecer é apenas não ter mais medo do passado

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.