Quotes About Aging

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.

You're ancient history, Vince. A has-been lining up for four p.m. dinner at the retirement home. You're not employable as a director anymore.

elders need better choices for living out their lives with assistance and dignity.

People go to a hospital to get fixed up and then return home. But people generally go to a nursing home fully expecting to get worse and die

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

With what tragic pathos do all men regard The child grown old whose heart cries!

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

One mother could look after twelve children and decades later these twelve adults would fidget and struggle to look after that one mother.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair.... It is almost as if happiness is an acquire taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

You can't hate old people, because if you are not an old person, you will become an old person, or die while trying to do so.

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

love grown dutiful is love grown old a withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

He liked to recall a statement the seventeenth-century diplomat William Temple made in retirement, that the gratifications of the public world are as nothing compared with "old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Then giving another taste to his drink, leaving it more than half full, he would make a rather stately progress to the booth, partly closing the door. He would take down the receiver and hesitantly begin speaking into the mouthpiece. Actually Mr. Sendel was talking only to himself. He would talk for several minutes into the silent phone, explaining how worried he was and how despairing it was at his time of life when all or almost all those dear to one have departed.

A man lives till he dies, and there is no age in between.