Quotes About Aging

He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The recollection of moments often proved richer than the moment themselves.

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

When it came down to it, though, you had to remember all those assholes cutting you off in traffic and walking the streets and shouting in bars and turning their music up too loud and mugging you and raping you and selling you lemon cars-all those assholes were just children who'd aged. No miracle. Nothing sacred in that.

We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we're the last to know. There

The soul seemed to flower as the body declined.

Igual se estaba haciendo viejo; sabía que no entender la música de la generación más joven era la primera señal de que la tuya estaba de capa caída

Invecchiamo sotto gli occhi di tutti, pensò, ma siamo sempre gli ultimi a saperlo. da Ogni nostra caduta, 2017

We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we're the last to know.

Old soldiers never die, you know; they only fade away.

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

I have noticed," she said slowly, "that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is—in the blink of an eye, the mother can see the child again as it was when it was born, when it learned to walk, as it was at any age—at any time, even when the child is fully grown and a parent itself.

Sometimes twenty years seemed like an instant, and sometimes it seemed like a very long time indeed.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy, Sassenach," he whispered, "—for it means that ye live.

time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is—in the blink of an eye, the mother can see the child again as it was when it was born, when it learned to walk, as it was at any age—at any time, even when the child is fully grown and a parent itself.

Suddenly the confusing image he had sought so desperately came back unbidden; Brianna's face, with its broad, clean bones, blue eyes set slantwise about a long, straight nose. But Brianna's face grown older, weathered to bronze, rough-cut and toughened by masculinity and experience, blue eyes gone black with a murderous rage. Jamie Fraser

The headline read RETURNED FROM THE DEAD. Beneath was a picture of Claire Randall, twenty years younger, but looking little different than she did now, bar

Voir les années s'inscrire sur ton corps et ton visage me procure une joie immense, Sassenach : Parce qu'elles signifient que tu vis.

I was older, heavier, and completely berserk.

The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me.

I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

You see a lot of guys going downhill as they get older, but I'm going the other way, and that's because of diet.