Quotes About Aging

One is inclined to add only one emollient sentence: that whoever you are and whatever you have done, you will be reversed if you reach old age, for then you will look like a hard old walnut or like some beatified infant of boundless cynicism – the London ideas of innocence. You will look so sweet that you will be able to get away with anything.

A person gets old not when he reaches old age, but, when he stops being a child.

although he was built like an aging prizefighter, the ring had definitely won the last round.

The older I get, the better I was.

It is better not to have taken on the weight of a man or woman who has seen many winters, winters that rob the eyes of their strength.

She remembered reading somewhere that although the body ages and weakens, and the mind grows older and sometimes slower too, the human spirit never ages. When we age we may have difficulty in climbing stairs or leaping over fences, and our memories may not be quite as sharp as they were at 14, but we still feel the same inside as we felt when we were young and were just setting out on the great adventure which is life.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

I was on Stealing Beauty in 1996 and then I started feeling acting was something I wanted to do forever. It made me feel like I'll still be looking for parts when I'm 70 years old.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.