Quotes About Aging

I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar.

I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

I remember when I turned 30 and I started doing sit-ups, I split with my girlfriend and stopped drinking and all sorts of things. It was a very weird time. But 60... I like it.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.