Quotes About Aging

Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe.

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age:

The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Old, he included himself in his scorn for those who young want the opposite of this earth then settle for more of it.

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

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If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on their priority list as finding a cockroach in their coffee. The typical scientist has made an interesting discovery early on in his or her career, followed by a lifetime of making sure that everyone else admires his or her contribution and that no one questions it. There is no poorer company than an aging scientist who has failed to achieve these objectives.

En nuestra especie, la atracción por la juventud tiene sentido debido a nuestro vínculo de pareja que conduce a familias estables. Las mujeres jóvenes están más disponibles y son más valiosas por la larga vida reproductiva que tienen por delante. De ahí el eterno anhelo femenino por parecer joven a base de bótox, implantes, estiramientos faciales y demás.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the same thing.

Then and Now In younger days each morning I rose with joy, To weep at nightfall; now, in my later years, Though doubting I begin my day, yet Always its end is serene and holy.

First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.

We weren't quite immortal. We did not age, so I suppose some of our kind could endure forever, if lakes and rivers last forever. Difficult to say. We did not really live, not like mortals. We dreamed.

I am impressed by how glibly most mortals confront the debilitation of the body. Patton. Your grandparents. Many others. They just accept it. I have always feared aging. The inevitability of it haunts me. Ever since I abandoned the pond, the prospect of death has been a menacing shadow in the back of my mind.

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

Every man had to die. He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying. He

He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying.