Quotes About Aging

New houses, which are crap, because they don't build them the way they used to anymore. Old houses, which used to be good, because they were built back when they built them the way they used to, but which today, as a result of being old, are crap. So whichever kind of house you own, it's going to be some variety of crap, which means sooner or later everything in it will break. Dealing with broken things is the essence of home ownership, and it's exhausting.

and he held her, then, and she held him, just for a moment, the last moment they would ever have when they were both the same age.

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.

And everything that seemed possible at twenty-four, twenty-five, is now just such a joke, such a ridiculous fiction, every birthday an atrocity

You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening. —You were bored. —I wasn't bored. I was dying. I am dying. But this week was different. There was alignment and order and a coming-to. —

There were hundreds of tiny creases and cracks all over his pale face. A few fine colourless hairs grew on his chin.

And I was there as well," he said. "And for one as old as me it's not so long ago, and it drove us all a little mad and a little sad and left us all with partly broken hearts.

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.

If Forbes would put a list of the 400 oldest Americans and I was on that one—that's the list I really want to be on.

AARP goes on to say that 75 percent of Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 have less than $30,000 in savings. Seriously, reread that statement.

It quickly aged all the occupants.

Decker gazed over at him. "You can still marry again. Have kids, Ross." "I think raising kids is a younger man's game. I'm not far off the big five-oh.

she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time he had left to live.

She was around fifty and her eye sockets were starting to recede into her face like a pond starting to dry up.

Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.

Busy day and I'm not getting any younger. And Irene Cramer's not getting any older. And somebody has to answer for that.

But if your brain went, you were also gone, though your body lingered and became dependent on someone else to take care of it. And that would be your loved ones' last impression of you, even though it wasn't really you, at least not anymore.

There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race as a group has matured along the same lines. It seems our comedy dates the quickest. If you laugh out loud at Shakespeare's jokes I hope you won't be insulted if I say you're trying too hard. Even sketches from the original Saturday Night Live seem slow-witted and obvious now.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! David Bowie

If only I were equipped with better organs! Weren't we supposed to be getting deep bio-upgrades by the time I hit fifty? Why is the future always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in the future?

I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the skin of a void, and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.