Quotes About Aging

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

Chinese people age overnight.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

The ears are the last feature to age.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.