Quotes About Aging

She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

The surest poison is time.

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

When you become 100, life changes completely.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

When you're fifty, you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

Her face looks as if it had worn out two bodies.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spenser is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.