Quotes About Aging

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.