Quotes About Aging

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

It's funny how from seventeen to seventy can be the blink of an eye, all of a sudden.

This music of old age…it isn't made for dancing. It's so…lonely. You're a burden to everyone.

To look at me now, you would think I'd never understood the secret. This music of old age...it isn't made for dancing. It's so...lonely. You're a burden to everyone.

The music of old age is difficult to hear when it's playing for someone you love.

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" — I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

And then I got really sad. I'm simply too young to hate my body. I'm going to be old in like two minutes, and my body really will be difficult to love. But now, well, it's fine. Why shouldn't I admire it ? It's mine and it keeps me healthy and I should accept it, just the way it is. There are people who are sick or disabled and who would kill to have a strong, healthy body, and the last thing they're worrying about is their fucking cellulite.

We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Old-age sucks, but the alternative doesn't look that great, either.

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

And yet methinks the older that one grows Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

While common men grow ignorantly old, The lawyer's brief is like the surgeon's knife, Dissecting the whole inside of a question, And with it all the process of digestion.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

She's understanding now what women mean when they say females her age seem to disappear.