Quotes About Aging

He was at an age when every odd ache or pain brought a little more fear than it had before, when colds lingered and settled on the chest.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

los primeros ochenta años son los difíciles, después te mueres y te quedas muy tranquilo. Pues bien, ahora los primeros ochenta años no sólo son difíciles, sino que, a este paso, pronto serán todos laborables.

Ya?lanarak de?il ya?ayarak tecrübe kazan?l?r; zaman insanlar? de?il, armutlar? olgunla?t?r?r

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

I missed the sad things about growing old, when women no longer look at you, when wine makes you weep instead of laugh and makes your mouth sour with the taste of weakness, and every day is one day nearer death.

Perhaps being old is having lighted roomsInside your head, and people in them, acting.People you know, yet can't quite name.

On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium. - Heads in the Women's Ward

I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself...

Life is slow dying.

I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires of mingled shame, pain or remorse. Cheerful prospect!

Men whose first coronary is coming like Christmas; who drift, loaded helplessly with commitments and obligations and necessary observances, into the darkening avenues of age and incapacity, deserted by everything that once made life sweet. These I have tried to remind of the excitement of jazz and tell where it may still be found.

They say eyes clear with age, As dew clarifies air To sharpen evenings, As if time put an edge Round the last shape of things To show them there; The many-levelled trees, The long soft tides of grass Wrinkling away the gold Wind-ridden waves- all these, They say, come back to focus As we grow old. - Long Sight In Age

Health is only part of the overall picture for aging gracefully. You also need to be fit; you need muscles for movement, to keep your bones strong and protect you from falls, to burn body fat, and avoid being overweight.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

When you're my age, Tom, you live in the Past a great deal. You remember it; you dream of it.

These people no doubt became more common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and judging from La Fontaine, those who tried to cheat death were found primarily among the old: He who most resembles the dead is the most reluctant to die. Eighteenth-century

Op mijn leeftijd ga je niet in één klap dood. Je bent als een huis waarvan de luiken worden gesloten, waar de meubels een voor een worden weggehaald, waar eerst het gas wordt afgesloten, dan het water, en ten slotte het licht, totdat de deur voor de laatste keer op slot wordt gedraaid en de sleutel wordt weggegooid. Een grappige gedachte. Niemand ziet het, maar ik glimlach.

Prisimenu pagalvojau, kad akys nepavaldžios amžiui ir kad mes visad mirštame su vaiko akimis, kurios vien? dien? atsiv?r? pasauliui ir su juo nebesiskyr?.

The older you get the more you realize that fashion and a sense of style are about expressing yourself. It should be creative and empowering and fun.