Quotes About Aging

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older

By common consent grey hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Quando se fica velha a memória não é muito boa. - Ela suspirou. - Não é tão ruim esquecer coisas pequenas, é quando não se sabe o que entristece mais, se o outono, porque faz a gente se lembrar de si mesma, ou a primavera, porque se aproveita menos dela do que antes. A coisa mais triste na velhice é talvez não ser mais capaz de tolices. Tradução de Clarice Lispector

The greatest thing in life is to die young — but delay it as long as possible.

At my age flowers scare me.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living"; so wrote Henri Amiel in 1874.

The Decathlon was conceived to assess the men's success from 65 to 80, but all but one of the events could be estimated for the 14 men who died between 58 and 64 years of age, and therefore they were included. Men who died before their 58th birthdays, however, were excluded. ** The men were coded

And here's a fact that should get you thinking: when Social Security set the retirement age at sixty-five, the average life expectancy for a male was sixty-one. It makes us realize how little Social Security was designed to pay out. The subsequent surge in life expectancy has changed the math of retirement entirely.

And most of the time, I like being by myself. But when I look into my future, I see no family, no husband, no children. No warmth. I just see myself getting older and more scarred.