Quotes About Aging

Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.

It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

In ten years time I'll be… (dead) sixty.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.