Quotes About Aging

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.

I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a little more as I grow older.

In] A Song at Twilight... Coward views compassionately a famous writer who, towards the end of his life, is outed by an ex-mistress. [Coward] argues that, by living a lie, the hero has recklessly maimed his talent. It is an Ibsenite theme and a moving coda to Coward's career.

Inequality breeds depression, addiction, resignation, and physical symptoms including premature aging, that affect the entire population. In other words, the well-being of individuals, rich or poor, is mutually dependent.

Long life wore away everything that was not essential.

She was a large, boneless woman who draped herself like an old blanket over the chairs of the apartment, staring for hours with her gray eyes at ghosts, figments, recollections, and dust caught in oblique sunbeams, her arms streaked and pocked like relief maps of vast planets, her massive calves stuffed like forcemeat into lung-colored support hose. She was quixotically vain about her appearance and spent an hour each morning making up her face.

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

She is getting old, and he is getting old, right on schedule, and yet as time ruins them, they are not, strangely enough, married to each other.

I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the clichés and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the clichés and conventions of the young.

that fifty percent of a person's medical expenses are incurred in the last six months of life.

The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.

Nobody should grow old." "And everybody should get the chance.

balding man with a drooping

The gray had not yet chased all of the brown out of his hair but it was getting close to victory.

She simply does what her daughter tells her to, and finds a surprising relief in it. Maybe, she thinks, one could begin dying into this: the ministrations of a grown daughter, the comforts of a room. Here, then, is age. Here are the little consolations, the lamp and the book. Here is the world, increasingly managed by people who are not you; who will do either well or badly; who do not look at you when they pass you in the street.

Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.

Make your heart as good as new? Your brain? Your back? Every other part of your body that ages? That's the promise of what lies ahead with one of the major players in the longevity race: senolytics. "Senescence" means the "process of growing old," while "lytics" means "anti." Senolytics is anti–growing old.