Quotes About Aging

the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you're able to lift it.

me, "Dickie Johnson and I were born together, grew up together, had lots of women together, and got old together, but he died before me.

You don't feel any different as you get older. Only, you can't do so much.

Before she had been a year at Ford Janet came to look forward to her next pass with something close to apprehension; it was pitiful to see her mother ageing and be unable to help her, to see her father turning into just another poor old man.

One grows old unknowingly. One accepts the passing of years as a phenomenon that has little bearing on one's personality. And then, quite suddenly, one comes to the realisation that one's contemporaries are growing a little old, falling off a little. One realises that one's hair is white.

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Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don't see

People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. You're beautiful, I murmured.

I sit by the bed with an aching back, and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Any older actor knows the last great mountain to climb is to play King Lear and now, if I ever play Lear, I will have done the pre-preparation because I had to go into the play and read it over and over again.

When you get older time moves faster - much faster.

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.

Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it's important to keep your muscle strength, as every decade you lose about 10% of this.

You know, your voice can only last for so long. It's a muscle and when you get older it sort of fades away.

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.