Quotes About Aging

The years don't slow down any as they pass.

Eat it, smoke it, stay up all night for it because the memories of the damage you wreak upon your body when you are young will sustain your spirit when you are old.

Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so as you get older and older your face starts to show all the tiny bits of all your smiles and you look like you are smiling all the time, even when you are just thinking about what to have for breakfast. She said, also, that if you frown a lot then the frowns stick to your face instead. That way when you are old you have a very frowny face and look cross all the time and people are scared of you.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

The love of nature comes with maturing years and is one of the few compensations for growing old.

Twelve years weigh on a person like pounds of lead. The days melt into one another, merge to form one whole block, a big anchor. And the person is lost.

she had stared through the window at a little old lady in the sun, grubby, light and quick – a branch quivering in the breeze. A dry branch where there was so much femininity, Joana had thought, that the poor dear could have a child if life hadn't dried up in her body

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

A friend writes of the numbing effects of humming and it returns you to your own sigh. It's no longer audible. You've grown into it. Some call it aging--an internalized liquid smoke blurring ordinary ache.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

I'm no spring chicken. The clock goes and Bessie goes. Only my machinery can't be fixed.

A rewarding life is aging without hatred or envy.

Cheese — milk's leap toward immortality.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

When did we get too old for this, Daeng? What happened to those days when we were somersaulting through the air with a cutlass in each hand taking out the enemy twenty at a time?" "I don't think that was us, Love. That was Bruce Lee.

Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

zo is het leven. voor hetzelfde geld had ik helemaal ergens anders gezeten, met geheel andere mensen. maar ik stel me niet meer de vraag: 'waar ben ik?' ik ben nu eenmaal waar ik ben, en dat al vele jaren lang. ik vecht niet tegen het lot, want zo'n gevecht eindigt toch altijd in een gelijkspel. als ik maar dag na dag ouder word, ben ik al tevreden.