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Quotes About Aging

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
~ Paula Cole
When I was in middle school, I remember thinking, like, Tara Lipinski was 14: I only got a few more years to go before I'm really old.
~ Mirai Nagasu
I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
~ Dick Van Dyke
You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.
~ Peter Morgan
Cameron called me a dinosaur you know? Well I'm the only dinosaur who can ride a bike 12 miles a day.
~ Dennis Skinner
I used to jog three miles a day, and then I saw I was getting a little bit older, so I started fast-walking three miles a day. Now I just drive.
~ George Miller
I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
~ Joanna Lumley
When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.
~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
The younger folks, the Gen Z-ers and millennials, might abuse their skin a little bit, and because they're so young they aren't intentionally taking care of their skin to protect it in the long run.
~ Paul Nassif
They have a new division where you have to be at least 80 years old. You play three days for a million dollars, one hole a day, and if you can remember what you shot, you win!
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.
~ John Slattery
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The older I've got, the better my relationship with my body has become, and that's because of my mindset.
~ Emma Willis
The minute you're born, you're getting older.
~ Doris Roberts
I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
M? già như chu?i ba hương Như xôi n?p má»™t, như ???ng mía lau
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddha taught that when we call up and get in touch with the truth that we cannot escape old age and death, our fear—and the foolish things we do to try not to feel it—will cease.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When we cross the threshold of our fiftieth year we see ourselves as base and spineless, I thought, the question is how long we can stand this condition.
~ Thomas Bernhard
And she thinks perhaps that is what love is: letting someone else see that part of you that shatters like glass...They will grow old together, broken together, and as long as they both don't completely shatter at the same time, they might find a way to pick each other off the ground.
~ Thomas Christopher Greene
Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line—less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
~ Thomas Hardy
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
~ Thomas Hardy
I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to pass My heart had shrunk as thin!
~ Thomas Hardy
She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen and among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation?
~ Thomas Hardy
As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point on the circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it. If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man!
~ Thomas Hardy