Quotes About Aging

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

It has been seven years since you died. Of course what I'll say next is that time has flown by. I got old. All of a sudden, de repente. I walk with difficulty. I even drool. I leave the door unlocked in case I die in my sleep, but it's more likely I'll go endlessly on until I get put away someplace. I am already dotty.... It's not so strange that I talk to my cat but I feel silly because he is totally deaf.

There was panic in my eyes. I looked into my own eyes and back down at my hands. Horrid age spots, two scars. Un-Indian, nervous, lonely hands. I could see children and men and gardens in my hands.

I was sixteen for twenty years. By September I will be a ghost.

They either beheld their children sink one after the other into the grave, or their youthful forms, withered by the unholy, vampire embrace of Brunhilda, assume the decrepitude of sudden age.

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.

One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived. And you think, How did this happen so fast? It was only yesterday when I was having my first legal drink, when I was diapering him, when I was young. When this realization hits, you start doing the math. How much time do I have left? How much can I fit into that small space? Some

If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up

The age wasn't as important as the milestones.

And then one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man.

One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived. And you think, How did this happen so fast? It was only yesterday when I was having my first legal drink, when I was diapering him, when I was young.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't

on top of a print of a turbaned man with a face as old as honesty.

Our body is like a machine. If we constantly run the machinery at high speed, it will wear out faster. Since animals with slower metabolic rates live longer, eating more calories, which drives up our metabolic rate, will cause us only to age faster. Contrary to what you may have heard and read in the past, our goal should be the opposite: to eat less, only as much as we need to maintain a slim and muscular weight, and no more, so as to keep our metabolic rate relatively slow.

Across five different regions and ethnicities, legumes were found to be the most consistent and reliable predictor of longevity.

Both types of diabetes accelerate the aging of our bodies. Having diabetes greatly speeds up the development of atherosclerosis, or cardiovascular disease. Diabetes also ages and destroys the kidney and other body systems. Forty thousand amputations per year are due to complications of diabetes. It is the leading cause of blindness in adults and of kidney failure.

Red Meat, Gut Bacteria, and Heart Disease The high-protein intake from animal products doesn't just accelerate aging and produce cancer. Excessive meat intake has also been associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular death.29 For example, combined data

There's nothing pre-programmed in the human genome that says as people get old they automatically get fat and have high blood pressure. They develop high blood pressure because their diets are calorie-rich and nutrient-poor. High blood pressure and heart disease are not the consequences of aging. They are the result of the slow insidious damage created from years and years of poor dietary choices.

I really like those old shows. I've decided the way to know you're becoming an old fogey is when the only shows you like are sponsored by Depends, the Scooter Store, and Viagra.

Never be afraid to grow old with your friends; for it's when you grow old together that you become the most trusted and sweetest friends of all.

You cannot afford to lose every friendship you make; some friendships are seriously needed to be maintained into your old age.

If you think making friends now is difficult; try old age.

If you think having real friends now is not necessary, then wait when you get old... It's more difficult to make real friends in old age than when you're young.

I am old now, or oldening ...