Quotes About Aging

I can't do the same," she said. "I remember being a child, and assuming the world belonged to me. That I'd be able to seize it when I grew older, accomplish my dreams, become something great. Yet as I've aged, I feel like less and less is under my control. I can't help thinking it shouldn't be that way. How could I have been so in control as a youth, yet often feel so helpless as an adult?

I can't decide if I'm glad to be old enough to wish my world a fond farewell, or if I envy the young lads who get to explore this world.

Envejecer era en realidad sufrir la traición definitiva, la del propio cuerpo contra uno mismo.

Legends say that one of your ancestors —one of only two others to have this Talent—broke time and space together, forming a little bubble where nothing aged.

Just as getting in and out of the weeds is a part of every waitstaff shift in a restaurant, navigating stressors is a daily part of living. However, daily stress can take a toll. In fact, chronic exposure to stressors can be detrimental to health. High levels of perceived stress have been shown to correlate with more rapid aging, decreased immune function, greater inflammatory processes, less sleep, and poorer health behaviors.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part of the aging process and the human experience.

All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

Zij ging vertrekken, maar zij wist nog niet waar zij uiteindelijk terecht zou komen. Zij moest iets volbrengen, maar zij had geen duidelijke voorstelling van wat dat was. Voorgevoel zei haar, dat een serene ouderdom voor haar niet was weggelegd.

Az új b?nözÅ' osztályok szimbiotikus rendszere mellé az orvostudomány megteremtett még valamit, ami annál is összehasonlíthatatlanul rosszab, a hosszú élettartamot, s vele egyre több öreget, akikre a társadalomnak nincs szüksége, akiknek nincs mit csinálniuk, s akiket nem tisztelnek.

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago. And she replied: But I'm also three weeks older.

Nessuno dovrebbe mai restar solo, da vecchio.

There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of very old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace.

But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.

I'm afraid I am hopelessly, furiously envious of all those who will continue to live when I am dead. I am equally embarrassed and terrified by the thought. I try to deny it, but it recurs with increasing frequency the older I get.

Growing older meant losing a little bit of energy every single day. And one day it would be completely gone.

Vorremmo che tutto potesse ripetersi, potesse tornare ad essere precisamente come era disse Karin. Ma invecchiare significa anche imparare a difendersi dal sentimentalismo. L'amicizia deve essere messa alla prova e rinnovarsi. Forse i vecchi amori non cambiano mai. Ma l'amicizia sì.

Mais il ne l'a pas oubliée, il ne l'oubliera jamais, elle était le grand amour de sa vie. Et elle, maintenant, je la retrouve en train de se biturer en plein midi à poil dans sa cuisine. Elle aussi, elle erre dans ce brouillard morose, et moi je n'ai toujours pas réussi à m'en libérer, alors que je vais avoir bientôt trente ans.

Our ancestors survive somewhere in our faces, she thought. If you look like your mother as a child, you end up as your father when you age. When you no longer recognise your face, it's because an unknown ancestor has taken up residence for a while.

I'm old, he thinks. Old and used up. Every morning when I wake up I'm surprised all over again that I'm seventy years old.

But I've come to terms with the fact that you never escape your parents. The roles are simply reversed. You become your parents' parents. - Lisa Holgersson

Growing older was like a mist silently drifting across the sea.

I'm a man who doesn't laugh enough, he thought. Without my noticing, middle age has marooned me on a coast with too many dangerous submerged rocks.