Quotes About Aging

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

In all dying our ages are the same.

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Fear comes with middle age.

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.