Quotes About Aging

You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: You could try something else.

That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

but I feel as if I have said everything of importance that I need to say, I feel as if I'm losing my memory and forgetting who I am.

Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

So Wang Lung sat, and so his age came on him day by day and year by year, and he slept fitfully in the sun as his father had done, and he said to himself that his life was done and he was satisfied with it.

The tears of the old come as easily as the tears of children

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman

IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

For one thing, I let go much more easily: knowing that it's all passing so quickly makes everything I encounter exceedingly precious. I know that every taste, every smell, every day, every meeting, every parting, could be my last. When I see people bent over, shuffling along on walkers, I know what could be ahead for me. I've begun to identify with the very elderly so intimately that instead of recoiling, I feel immense compassion.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

you should never prepare for old age, just let it happen and deal with it when it does.

We're all pretty much able to deal even with the worst that life can fire at us, if we simply admit that it is very difficult. I think that's the whole of the answer. We make our way, and effort and time give us cushion and dignity. And as we age, we're riding higher in the saddle, seeing more terrain. So it's an epiphany after all. You have it in your hand the whole time.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Almost half of the people over 40 believe they look younger than they are. This says something important about older Americans. We have terrible eyesight.