Quotes About Aging

Milkha Singh is living his last days. An earthen lamp's glow is brightest towards the end, in the same manner I am humbled by the kind of love and respect being showered on me at this age.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.

I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it?

I have an amazing metabolism. I'm sure that'll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don't think I'll ever get really fat.

My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today's America, we had a baby in later life.

I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.

I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!

Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.

I don't want to be the guy who's 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.

I think a lot of athletes when they get in their mid and late 30s, they focus more on kids, on family.

I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

I just have to live my life knowing that there could be a good chance that I might die in middle age.