Quotes About Aging

Os velhos senhores reconhecem-se pelo hábito que têm de se gabar dos sofrimentos passados e de os transformarem num museu para o qual convidam visitantes (ah, esses tristes museus são tão pouco frequentados!)

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade..

DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians' bodies.

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that's become the body that she has and her habits becoming the habits that she's written in stone. Her "haves" being the ones she's got and maybe not getting anymore.

Keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can't be held together forever - take advantage before the expiration date appears in the nearing distance.

I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever, he says. But I'd like to be with her before that happens.

When Blair bites her lower lip she's eighteen again.