Quotes About Aging

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

I look in the mirror and see lines, but I have earned those lines. It has taken me 59 years to get them and I am not losing them now.

I think when you are older, you should be slowing down, but I wouldn't like not to work as I would get rather miserable.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

I absolutely hate getting older and it's not because of the way it makes you look. It's because I have this sense of so much still left to do and to see. It's my fear of missing out on the future that really gets to me.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

Childhood is pretty fantastic but every age has its moments of beauty.

Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.

As America is growing older, there are more and more families caring for older parents and grandparents, and it's extremely expensive.

As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.

The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having a hard time and are ill.