Quotes About Aging

El dolor dejó en el rostro de esta mujer un velo de tristeza. Esta nube no se disipó hasta la edad terrible en que la mujer comienza a añorar sus buenos tiempos pasados sin haberlos disfrutado, cuando ve marchitarse sus rosas y cuando los deseos del amor renacen con el ansia de prolongar las últimas sonrisas de la juventud.

In the friendship grown old already, one was the worshiper, and that one was David; Lucien ruled him like a woman sure of love, and David loved to give way. He felt that his friend's physical beauty implied a real superiority, which he accepted, looking upon himself as one made of coarser and commoner human clay.

The handsome things she had admired from her youth up she suddenly suspected of age and absurdity. In short, she felt that fear which takes possession of nearly all authors when they read over a work they have hitherto thought proof against every exacting or blase critic: new situations seem timeworn; the best-turned and most highly polished phrases limp and squint; metaphors and images grin or contradict each other; whatsoever is false strikes the eye.

I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.

My mother, as a woman in her sixties, is mostly a mystery to me. In my mind, she's an eternal forty-two, and as her daughter, I never get past seventeen. There

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow -- To Be old friends?

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Quem envelhece reconhece que permanecemos constantemente em culpa, através de todas as circunstâncias e combinações da vida; mas em cada homem habita também a sua sorte de inocência; e é esta que o sustenta, sem que ele mesmo saiba como

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.

isn't the years that matter, Adam. Time doesn't run that way. Life's quick and then it's slow and then there are grey spaces where it really doesn't seem to run at all.

This volume is dedicated to time. It gives us memories, fine wine, and wrinkles. But the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old. So here's to time, dear reader, yours and mine. May you have many more wrinkles, a lot of fine wine, and memories to last two lifetimes.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Un tonto viejo es peor que uno joven. Porque el joven siempre podrá volverse sabio. Zohair

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

everything about him. There were tiny new lines at the

We all grow old. Some of us prolong it. Others accelerate it. Nobody can prevent it.