Quotes About Aging

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.