Quotes About Aging

Old because her feet were gnarled and dusty, her eyes a deep, fiery orange, and she was beautiful. Beautiful like a granite cliff or a thunder-cloud.

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

Most of the people who say beauty fades say it with a smirk. Fading is more than just expected, it's what they want to see. I don't.

A woman who's clearly had too much sun in her time and now resembles a mahogany-hued marmoset

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Dat is de ellende : je wilt in geen geval nog een keer jonger, stommer zijn, maar je wilt ook niet ouder worden, en ondanks alle ervaring heb je geen vertrouwen in de ouderdom, je wilt jezelf en de wereld om je heen diepvriezen, je bent niet superieur genoeg om gewoon te genieten van wat er is.

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

I used to be svelte but with age I have svelled.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging," the report notes that while we live longer today than ever before, we are at increasing risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases. The report refers to the "Western disease cluster

I am reaching the end of my career this detachment has started to fade. I am less frightened by failure – I have come to accept it and feel less threatened by it and hopefully have learned from the mistakes I made in the past. I can dare to be a little less detached. Besides, with advancing age I can no longer deny that I am made of the same flesh and blood as my patients and that I am equally vulnerable.

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well.

maggot gnaws the cabbage, but it dies before it's done; so the old folks used to say," he added

What can one do?' " Stepan Oblonsky says early on in the book. " 'The world's made like that.' " Part of the way this world was made is that wives get older faster than their husbands.

We sin so much, we deceive so much, and all for what? I'm over fifty, my friend … I'll … Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible." He

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.