Quotes About Aging

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Time bears away all things.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Friends and wine should be old.

The ripest fruit first falls.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter.

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

Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard as I can to act like I'm 65, but it's very difficult.

Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.