Quotes About Aging

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable with the idea of dying.

It's important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.

As I grow older and I don't run so fast, I'm not so eager to get myself in situations where I'm going to have to run.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

I am proud of the fact I would never tamper with my looks. I love the fact I have earned every line and wrinkle.

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

I would love to work into my eighties. I don't want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

'This Is England 2015.' That would be ace. We could have prosthetics to make us look really old.

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.

Europeans are really dying out!

Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Meditation is a crucial element of spiritual life in old age, when we head toward completion. Through meditation, you can maintain the feeling of your soul, and you can have the intense experience of being one with the energy that comes from the Source of life

naturally pursuing a higher level of joy in old age is a principle of the human body and a principle of nature. That's why selfish people who are still obsessed with their desires even into old age seem ugly.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.