Quotes About Aging

Where did the time go? Yesterday, I was a girl, and today, I suddenly find myself in the autumn of my years with the cold winds of winter breathing down my neck.

I am now old enough to no longer have a fear of dying young.

I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can "age without aging." The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm.

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.

Middle age — a stealthy, crafty nemesis.

[T]he drama that is associated usually with the young as they fully begin to enter life—with adolescents, with young men... can also startle and lay siege to the aged.... Maybe the most potent discoveries are reserved for last.

Aging is an exponential clock — ticking in runaway years.

Old men are like the wrecks of time, thrown by the waves of one century upon the shores of another.

Age composes poems upon our faces — with more meaning and fewer rhymes every passing year

We must grow old! The years go by, Sometimes on wings they seem to fly; But why such haste? We know not why! We only know that we grow old!... The broken links of life's short chain Can never find their place again... Into the dark unknown we take The hopes misfortune could not shake, Pure as the mountain's snowy flake, Where all is well—when we are old.

With each passing year, the body turns more prison than shelter.

Aging is closer to ashes — but also to stardust.

My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories.

Age is a prison we cannot escape but only by death into another world

Often have I reckoned up on my birthday the increasing years — the feathers in the broad wing of time — and thought upon the sounding flights of youth...

May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.

Do you count your birthdays thankfully?

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

...but Edward Young was a querulous old fashioned dotard...

I am glad it is your birthday. It is this little bouquet's birthday too. Its Father is a very old man by the name of Nature...