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Quotes About Aging

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.
~ Phyllis Diller
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
~ Pete Wentz
Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.
~ Denis Norden
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
~ Lord Cecil
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
~ Debra Winger
No lie ever reaches old age.
~ Sophocles
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
~ Mason Cooley
I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.
~ Olivia Williams
If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.
~ Alex Borstein
People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change.
~ Richard H. Steckel
As you age, feelings do diminish.
~ Bette Midler
Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.
~ Diane Keaton
One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
~ E. W. Howe
I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.
~ Cyra McFadden
I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.
~ Cameron Diaz
Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.
~ David Oliver Relin
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
~ Orhan Pamuk
You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.
~ Eva Herzigova
Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.
~ Helen Van Slyke
When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.
~ Helen Van Slyke
The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.
~ Rebecca West
We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.
~ James Franco
Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
~ James Lee Burke