Quotes About Aging

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

Old age is second childhood.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you're the same person you always were.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]