Quotes About Aging

The problem is understaffing. The problem is undertraining. The problem is high caregiver turnover. The problem is paying minimum wage. The problem is the eldercare industry. (I could go on, and so I will: The problem is undervaluing the elderly. The problem is fear of aging. The problem is fear of dying.)

In fifty years, we'll be like those old men who spend hours at all-day breakfast diners. We'll have big ears and tufting sprouts of nose hair, and we'll guffaw at everything the other says. Heh-heh-heh, you know it, Roby. Pass the damn ham.

In 1513, only six years before Magellan undertook his circumnavigation, Juan Ponce de León set out to find the Fountain of Youth.

Don't worry about middle age ?????

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

One day soon, this body will be old; and not too long afterward, it will turn into dust. This thought frightened her, made her think of how insignificant she was, made her realize that she alone gave her life significance.

On their old street, each house is a different drab shade: tan, dirty cream, the washed-out gray of tattered laundry: as if all the color has leached away since his childhood. Slope shouldered, listing slightly to one side, they resemble old ladies, their clothing grown shabby and loose.

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE".

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Ac?, hassasiyetini kabukla?t?r?yor insan?n. Ölmek galiba bu. Ayr?l??a al??m?? gibiyim. Tevekkül, teslimiyet. Ve heyecanlar?n gün geçtikçe kararan p?r?lt?s?. Al??kanl?klar?n insan? pestile çeviren çark?. Art?k yanarak de?il tüterek ya??yorum. Nemli bir tomar gibi. Kanatlar?m her gün bir parça daha a??rla??yor. Galiba ihtiyarl?yorum.

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.

Non è bello essere bambini: è bello da anziani pensare a quando eravamo bambini.

I veri acciacchi dell'età sono i rimorsi.

Vecchi si nasce, – dissi, – non si diventa mica.

I liked the faces, too, the same as I'd always seen them; the old wrinkled women, the cautious oxen, the girls with flowers, the roofs of the dove-cotes. It seemed as if only seasons had passed since I saw them last, not years.

In every day and in every way, we're all that much closer to death.

I have nothing against old people. I want to be one myself one day.

You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Let's start with working longer. Many of us are healthier and have less physically demanding jobs than our parents and grandparents. And we are living much longer. So stretching out our work lives is a sensible option. And the payoff is eye-popping! Individuals who delay receiving Social Security benefits from 62 to 70 increase their monthly benefits by a full 76 percent. Government