Quotes About Aging

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Grief gets worse, you know that, as you get older.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

I'm eighty-two, can you believe it?" She's actually ageless, given that her purple face is stretched tighter than an eggplant. "So what did you have done?" I ask, unable to help myself. "The whole package," she says. "Got my eyelids done, some Botox, a little filler, chin implant, cheekbones, got my lips done, neck lift, breast implants, tummy tuck, ass lift.

An ass lift? At eighty-two? I plan on proudly letting my ass drag when I'm eighty-two. I sure as hell wouldn't—

particularly gruesome menopause (or meno-go, as the case was),

Best friends forever. They'd believed it would last, that vow, that someday they'd be old women, sitting in their rocking chairs on a creaking deck, talking about the times of their lives, and laughing...

Children become adults who become children again.

Flight from life does not exempt us from the law of age and death. The neurotic who tries to wriggle out of the necessity of living wins nothing and only burdens himself with a constant foretaste of aging and dying, which must appear especially cruel on account of the total emptiness and meaninglessness of his life.

the sun is using up its combustible hydrogen and will eventually exhaust it and extinguish. The sun too is getting older, and in fact produces heat. The moon also appears to orbit Earth unchangingly and always equal to itself, whereas in reality it is slowly moving away. This is because it raises tides, and the tides heat the sea a little, thus exchanging energy with the moon.

People were not peaches. Like guns and saddles, they were all the better for becoming slightly worn.

Lo que envejece ni son los años ni las arrugas. Lo que nos hace viejos es el corazón. Si logras sentir siempre un afecto, si algo en la vida merece tu amor, tu admiración o entusiasmo… ».

La verdad es que eran como pájaros envejecidos y oscuros, con las pechugas palpitantes de haber volado mucho en un trozo de cielo muy pequeño.

Esta tarde, por ejemplo, es distinta a cualquier otra y nunca se repetirá. Y cuando tú y yo seamos viejos, ni siquiera nos acordaremos. Es imposible apresar el tiempo, ¿no te parece?

Es la gran ventaja que tiene hacerse viejo, ¿sabe? Uno consigue ver el desenlace de lo que vivió. Sí, esa es la mejor manera de juzgar las cosas, tener un poquito de perspectiva; y eso solo lo da el tiempo.

presentation, she looked drawn, as old as the limestone hills behind her property. Her facial skin was marbled, hair greying at the roots. She had grown frail, as though she might disintegrate at the first touch; she was a desiccated, vulnerable shadow of her former self and it was hard to

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

Later in life, children are often reluctant for a host of reasons to assume responsibility over their parents, a reversal of roles that symbolizes mortality.

This will sound crazy, but I'm saving it. For my nursing home list." "You mean bucket list." "Oh no, that's totally different. A nursing home list is a list of things you plan on reading and watching in a nursing home. A bucket list is more like . . . visit Nigeria, jump out of an airplane. A nursing home list is like, read The Western Coast and watch Pulp Fiction and listen to the latest Daft Punk album.

Until tonight , she thought death was for grandparents and goldfish.

I hate it here... ...Everyday is actually three days, a freezing morning, a blistering day, and a cool night. You need a lot of clothes. And every day is the same day, which is why it's important to hang a calendar. I see why people move here and wake up one day scratching their heads, wondering when they turned forty or what year it is.