Quotes About Aging

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

Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

Freda would grab his hand with her soft, old hand, and pat it gently, and say, "Life is long" or

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind, A.J.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Because the 40s, as writer Barbara Fried so succinctly captures them, are a time when it seems no matter what course one has pursued, "everything is turning gray, drying up or leaving home.

I come out of the home for the aged, get on my bicycle, and think to myself that even if there is a communal grave it will in future not be of archaeological significance. Nevertheless, I have finally visited my deceased maternal grandmother who once bought me a spinning top.

Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

Growing old is a pathetic thing. it is full of limitations and reduction. It happens to us all, I know; but I think that it might not have to. I think it happens to those of us who request it. And in our current mind-set, our collective ennui, it is what we have chosen to do.

Staranje je klavrna stvar. Zaznamovano z omejitvami in kr?enjem. Vem, da doleti vse; vendar mislim, da bi lahko bilo tudi druga?e...V naši trenutni miselnosti, v kolektivnem dolg?asu, smo se pa? odlo?ili, da bo tako. Toda nekega dne se bo rodil mutant, ki bo zavrnil staranje, ki ne bo hotel sprejeti omejitev telesa, ki bo zdrav, dokler ne bo opravil z življenjem, namesto, da bi mu telo odpovedalo oporo.

In order for an aging person to remain healthy and creative, the body and mind must continue to be active. You

My mom lived to be ninety-five. Every morning I would ask her, "Are you going to have a good day?" She would always answer, "I choose to have a good day. I don't have enough days left in my life to have a bad one." She was right, she didn't. And neither do I!

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

You have to get old because of the geometry of spacetime.

The drunk Gen Xers danced fast, as if they were still young, but she knew they'd wake up, roll out of bed, and groan at the ache in their knees.

Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.

Then Methuselah embraced Havah. She whispered to him, "Methuselah, you shall outlive us all." That struck him as a bit odd, out of place. Maybe she had lost some of her wits in her old age.

Life is pitiless to the elderly.

Love - why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at 75 and her at 71, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.

I've become one of those horrible women who goes around saying things like, 'Now that I am old, I shall wear more purple.

It was the refrigerator of a man who was worried about his health. It was also the refrigerator of a man from another generation.

It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.