Quotes About Aging

Do you think that the day you stop listening to new music is the day you decide you're on the path to old age? Like you've given up on new stuff and you resign yourself to music you've already heard? Like you're through discovering and all you want to do is rummage through your old things?

As one got older, cold became one's enemy, as if the grave was teasing already.

I suppose it is the bane of mortality to suffer time as it narrows and confines, to know that never again will anything seem as wide, as open, as attainable as it did in our youth.

Se bem que, como rugas e perdas, cicatrizes também fossem troféus.

All you could hope for with your second half century: that things wouldn't piss you off. You rarely got that.

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

An old woman, still beautiful, but bent, softened with time.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. JAMES A. GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin—and certainly a danger—to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Firstlife matters," I repeat. "Hear, hear," Sloan calls. "I'm looking forward to wrinkled skin, gray hairs and most especially the use of diapers.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. Patricia Bourque

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age — once you learn to keep a cork in it.

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.

they never tell you when you're younger how much you're going to ache once you get older

WHO THE HELL'S AT THE DOOR? When you are young your favourite time for sex are often first thing in the morning or last thing at night,but as you get older your body clock changes.You can't function in the morning until you have had breakfast and at night you are so tired at the end of a long day that you just want to go to sleep.On your agenda,sex comes somewhere below running a marathon or wrestling an alligator.

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The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.

Before exploring other critical implications of the subtleties at the interface between capillaries and cells, such as how they influence your growth, aging, and subsequent death, I want to briefly return to the issue of Godzilla.