Quotes About Aging

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure you that I will still love you when I have only the strength (and the scant teeth) left to gum those puckered lips. I shall love you when your bones are sharp enough to pierce my fragile flesh. I shall love you when the light in my own eyes fades for good and yours is the last sweet face I see. Because I am and ever shall be…

In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

My younger passions are still listening, as I age.

It's as if the future is coming to us faster than we are heading to it. I think it was the author William Gibson who suggested that global stocks of cognitive dissonance are currently so high they threaten to make the traditional idea of science fiction redundant. And once you reach my age, you tend to find that the individual days become really long, but the years get shorter, which only distorts your temporal perspective still further.

Its focus is on treatments that can lengthen telomeres—the "caps" at the end of each strand of DNA. Telomeres get shorter each time a cell copies itself. As cells copy themselves throughout our lives, the telomeres eventually

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

When you are young and strong you can be sure of springing free of your material envelope through your own vitality; later, any dinginess or fustiness may seep back into you

And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.

A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.

Men who have not observed discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.

Fielding's research group suggests that rapid weight lifting as opposed to the slow mode of traditional lifting may help maintain fast-twitch muscle power with age.

However, it has long been known that diazepam and other similar drugs cause falls in the elderly, and such falls are often the precursor of death. It has also been suspected that, by some unspecified mechanism, diazepam (and sleeping draughts of all kinds) promote death. A

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

THE DAY The day was a year at first When children played in the garden; The day shrank down to a month When the boys played ball; The day was a week thereafter When young men walked in the garden; the day was itself a day when love grew tall the day shrank down to an hour when old man limped in the garden The day will last forever When it is nothing at all.

They were all getting too old too fast. Alison wished that someone had warned her about this while she was in high school. People get old really fast. Take it easy and learn to forgive. She wondered if she would have known what that meant in high school.