Quotes About Aging

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

I don't think I've become old. Just more aware of where the next lavatory is.

I am fifty-four years old, the age my mother was when she died. The questions I hold now could not have been comprehended when I was a woman in my twenties. I didn't realize how young she was, but isn't that the conceit of mothers—that we conceal our youth and exist only for our children? It is

What happens when we get old? he wondered. Where does the kid part of us go?

But roses! Even through winter they persisted, bare and thorny, like angry old women crouched in the cold.

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. (2) I am of the nature to have ill-health. There is no way to escape having ill-health. (3) I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. (4) All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. (5) My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first.

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. They are the ground upon which I stand. To

I have lived almost seven decades. So I've had my hair journey where I wasn't comfortable with my hair.

Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

One of my favorite comics is 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment.

They say the older you get, the less you care about what people think. The physical reason for elderly insouciance may be frontal lobe degeneration resulting in a loss of inhibition and social judgment.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a hero, to have played different comedic roles. She gets sexier, funnier, and better with time.

The older you get, the longer your jump shot becomes.

I just entered the wonderful world of 40s, so anything anti-aging, I'm jumping on.

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?

I've said many times in the past that my career's not going to go on much longer; I'm not going to keep going and riding until I'm in my 30s and things like this.

I will try to keep going as long as I can. I'd love to play until the age of 40 - it will be interesting to see if I can do that.

I just want to keep going as long as I can. I'm getting older, and I want to keep growing, and I feel pretty excited about what I do. Whether it's true or not, I believe I'm doing better as a writer, which is really nice.

At 87, I have to keep moving because, if I sit down, you never know what might happen.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.