Quotes About Aging

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance

Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Oh roses for the flush of youth,And laurel for the perfect prime;But pluck an ivy branch for meGrown old before my time.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us—" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

You see when a man knows he will be old, he is afraid: when he becomes old, he cares for nothing—love does not count, only comfort; honor does not count, only cheating for a niche.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Kur njerëzit humbasin spontanitetin, atëherë kanë filluar të plaken.

I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.

I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

Yet when this day has ended my child will be older and I will be nearer to dead. Why should I wish for this to happen any sooner than it already will?

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

Und ich sehe Freds Gesicht, unerbittlich alt werdend, leergefressen von einem Leben, das nutzlos wäre und gewesen wäre ohne die Liebe, die er mir einflößt. Das Gesicht eines Mannes, der zu früh von Gleichgültigkeit erfaßt wurde gegen alles, was ernst zu nehmen andere Männer sich entschlossen haben. Und sagte kein einziges Wort S.39

Wine tasted to him 'so sour' that he thought it could be improved 'with a spoonful of sugar'. Beer, as he often informed us, he had liked very much when he was young, but now he found it 'too bitter'.

Face it: you're never going to get carded again, so quit asking bouncers if they want to see your ID. Quit going places where they have bouncers.

Accept it: you're too old to drink more than one drink and sleep through the night. Face it: you're never going to get carded again, so quit asking bouncers if they want to see your ID. Quit going places where they have bouncers.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.