Quotes About Aging

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

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

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead, as it's your birthday Delusion, today, is just fine