Quotes About Aging

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Increasingly political, assertive, articulate, and outspoken as we age, many of us become, paradoxically, the girls we were once: wild, hearty, courageous, and playful.

Every year has an expiration date, as does every lifetime. Even the finest wine can't age forever.

Los rostros jóvenes son como esos cuadernos bellamente empastados que venden en las papelerías con las páginas en blanco. Sólo el tiempo pone palabras en los rostros, historias, carácter.

Gioconda aborda temas femeninos como la menarquía, menstruación y menopausia. Hace alusión al desorden hormonal en una prosa poética. Aborda además, el cansancio de un matrimonio de 26 años, un esposo exitoso y una mujer que busca su propia identidad. Ambos cometen infidelidad.

Nella vita, se uno vuol capire, capire sul serio come stanno le cose di questo mondo, deve morire almeno una volta. E allora, dato che la legge è questa, meglio morire da giovani, quando uno ha ancora tanto tempo davanti a sé, per tirarsi su e risuscitare...Capire da vecchi è brutto, molto più brutto.

There's a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it's really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can't ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it's quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia's the sane realisation you just can't be doing with all that anymore.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

La juventud persiste hasta mucho después de que uno ha dejado de ser joven. El amor por la vida permanece indefinidamente, con menos probabilidad de ser amado, menos habilidad de amar, y con el aguijón de la pasión tan acuciante como siempre. El solterón envejecido no es tan distinto de un viejo halcón.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Sous quelque habit que ce soit, je n'en sentirai pas moins les misères de l'existence humaine. Je suis trop vieux pour jouer encore, trop jeune pour être sans désirs. Qu'est-ce que le monde peut m'offrir de bon ? Tout doit te manquer, tu dois manquer de tout ! Voilà l'éternel refrain qui tinte aux oreilles de chacun de nous, et ce que, toute notre vie, chaque heure nous répète d'une voix cassée.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

His eyes were curiously deep, and a warm, gray color. His mouth was thin-lipped, but a little wide and altogether friendly. His light, straight brown hair was already receding at the temples. He wore it clipped short, and he would be nearly bald before his thirties were out, but since he was not the sort of man to whom good looks are necessary, this would make little difference.

Then autumn comes, with its first flush of youth gone, but ripe and mellow, midway in time between youth and age, with sprinkled grey showing on the temples.

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

Don't worry about avoiding temptation — as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.