Quotes About Aging

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,And coming events cast their shadows before.

He that loves a rosy cheek,Or a coral lip admires,Or, from starlike eyes, doth seekFuel to maintain his fires;As old Time makes these decay,So his flames must waste away.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

In America, the old are neglected.

I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.

I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-term side effects, and I just don't think that can be good for you.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

When you pass 70, you forget your enemies. You think about the nice people instead.

Nick has said he would divorce me if I got Botox.

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

I'm hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse's.

Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana.

I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.

Listen, I'm extremely lucky. I can't complain at all. I've had a very good go at it. But there is no doubt that as a woman it gets harder as you get older. I don't think it's so hard for men - that's the same in a lot of industries.