Quotes About Aging

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

I'm not going anywhere, " she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person.

The best feeling I have ever felt is by holding your handbecause it is the hand I am holding today, I will hold it tomorrow andit is the hand that will hold me when I will be old.#indrani(wifey)

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

The commonest symptoms of this fear are: The tendency to slow down and develop an inferiority complex at the age of mental maturity, around the age of forty, falsely believing one's self to be "slipping" because of age. (The truth is that man's most useful years, mentally and spiritually, are those between forty and sixty).

Eliminate the fear of old age by reaching a decision to accept it, not as a handicap, but as a great blessing which carries with it wisdom, self-control, and understanding not known to youth.

Modernity's double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.

Mother Nature does not develop Alzheimer's—actually there is evidence that even humans would not easily lose brain function with age if they followed a regimen of stochastic exercise and stochastic fasting, took long walks, avoided sugar, bread, white rice, and stock market investments, and refrained from taking economics classes or reading such things as The New York Times.

It turns out, as shown by Karsenty and others who have since embarked on the line of research, that the reverse is also largely true: loss of bone density and degradation of the health of the bones also causes aging, diabetes, and, for males, loss of fertility and sexual function. We just cannot isolate any causal relationship in a complex system.

In a natural environment, people die without aging—or after a very short period of aging.

loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects.

loss of bone density and degradation of the health of the bones also causes aging, diabetes, and, for males, loss of fertility and sexual function. We just cannot isolate any causal relationship in a complex system.

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort—a disease of civilization: make life longer and longer, while people are more and more sick.

Ricordate questa massima: non sto dicendo che le tecnologie non invecchiano, ma solo che le tecnologie che tendevano a invecchiare sono già morte.

Lindy" is what ages in reverse, i.e., its life expectancy lengthens with time

Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.

Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

since the older we get, the less likely we are to live.

Los fantasmas de nuestra infancia son indestructibles y no saben envejecer

En cambio, después de la guerra, el mundo se presentaba enorme, ignoto y sin confines. Mi madre sin embargo volvió a vivirlo como pudo. Volvió a vivirlo con alegría, porque tenía un carácter alegre. Su espíritu no sabía envejecer y no conoció nunca la vejez, que consiste en quedarse humillado en un rincón llorando el desmoronamiento del pasado.

Munch está muerto desde hace tiempo, como pintor, le sobrevive un viejecito limpio y modesto, que pinta malos cuadros y que tal vez ha encontrado la salud en la mediocridad.

I was more'n forty by then," said Miles sadly. "I was married. I had two children. But, from the look of me, I was still twenty-two. My wife, she finally made up her mind I'd sold my soul to the Devil. She left me. She went away and she took the children with her." "I'm glad I never got married," Jesse put in.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.