Quotes About Aging

Coke had a theory to explain grown-ups, as he did for most things in life. In his view, babies are born with a specific number of brain cells, which waste away and die off as people get older. So by the time they reach thirty—and certainly by the time they reach forty—most of their brain cells are gone. This explains why grown-ups do and say the things they do.

In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.

Tempus edax rerum.

Time sure kicks the shit out of people...

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Gwen didn't have to ask about the Fall. It happened to all old people, the Fall. They fell and then everything changed[...]They fell and never quite got up again.

A fost r?u c? Adam È™i Eva au mâncat din pomul cunoaÈ™terii. A fost r?u când au v?zut c? sunt goi È™i când au înv??at ce sunt poftele È™i ruÈ™inea. ?i au fost goniÈ›i din Paradis È™i s-au închis porÈ›ile dup? ei. Dac? nu s-ar fi întâmplat asta, nimeni n-ar mai trebui s? îmb?trânesc?, s? se îmboln?veasc? È™i s? moar?.

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

What I tell a girl is, your six-pack hot boyfriend right now, in six years, will be balding and maybe have a paunch. But I make you laugh every five minutes today, and I'll make you laugh 20 years from now; that's not going to go away.

It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

A sister will always notice her sister's first gray hairs with glee.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

"It could be nice, growing old with you."

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.