Quotes About Aging

But time changed all things, oxidizing friendships like old copper pots, so they no longer saw their reflection in each other's faces.

You never see an old man eating a Twix

Karl Pillemer

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.

I no longer see a future. I've been told when I get older That I'll understand It all. But I'm not sure if I want to.

He's shocked to find I am middle aged. I'm not shocked. Inside me are the Russian dolls of the women and girls I've been before each more beautiful and unhappy than the current.

Watching myself age is like watching an explosion far out in a calm sea.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.

So many people live in fear, fear of losing what they have, the little job that provides their daily bread, the wife they have managed to acquire, fear for their health, fear on account of their children, fear at the thought of old age.

As everyone knows, people revert to virtuous ways when they are too old for their virtue to be endangered. The confessor was not deceived by any of these women who repented out of impotence or malice and were inclined to criticize in others the very aberrations of which they themselves had formerly been guilty.

I had always imagined, Westfield said, that one could either die tragically, cut short with much still to be done, or that one could die old and full of years, as the Bible has it, after having put one's house in order. I had never considered that there is a third alternative, in which one went on living and yet found no order in one's life, in which everything at the end was as confused and unfinished as it had always been.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

It's a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you're forty.

In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

How quickly you go from being the youngest to the oldest person in a room, she thought.

How could a person still be as young as he objectively knew himself to be and have had so much time pass?

She dates some - women and men. She has slipped into bisexuality without needing to make a big thing about it. She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind