Quotes About Aging

It has always seemed to me a disgrace that the embarrassments of early life should continue to smart throughout adulthood with undiminished intensity. Is it not enough that our youthful blunders made us cringe at the time, when we were at our tenderest, but must stay with us beyond cure, burn marks ready to flare up painfully at the merest touch? No: an indiscretion from earliest adolescence will still bring a blush to the cheek of the nonagenarian on his deathbed.

The skin of his weather-beaten face and the backs of his hands is wrinkled and brown and shiny, like shiny brown paper that had been used to wrap something unwrappable.

Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y viril es un acto de masoquismo que no sirve de nada.

Well, I'm not advocating it," I said. "I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.

He'd always been a handsome man, of course, and his good looks had stayed with him into old age, as they so often do with undeserving men.

A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face. He looked a hundred years old. He looked like a man who had died several months earlier. He looked like a soul in pure torment.

An old man should not resent those who are sent to take his place, and to recall when I was young and healthy and virile is an act of masochism that serves no purpose.

the plight of being old: clearly recalling what it was like to act voluntarily and enjoy life as it came, now trapped in a frame that forbade anything except slow cautious movements

They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting rooms and places where the aged and the infirm waited sniffily for the angel of death in front of their television sets.

When he was young, brooks had seemed to speak to him in the tongues of men and angels. Now that he was an old man who spoke five or six languages - all of them poorly - the sound of water seemed to be the language of his nativity, some tongue he had spoken before his birth. Soft and loud, high and low, the sound of water reminded him of eavesdropping in some other room than where the party was.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

I feel that as people become older and mature, they should also become less complicated and easier to love.

I die a little inside every time I see an old person alone at a restaurant.

We still talk, but it isn't like it used to be...I never used to feel like I was your second best, you said that I was your number 1? Now you're getting older reality has hit you like a ton of bricks. As we grow older we realize some of the things that used to put a smile on our faces change to put frowns on our faces. People change, people grow up. Thats life.

I've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well towards family members.

Congratulations on looking like you only aged one year since your last birthday.

Happy birthday to someone I hope is my friend even when we're too senile to remember each other's birthdays.

Now you're one year older. A bit of a grump. I just want you to know that I still care for you the same.

So many candles such a small cake. Next year, may your birthday wish be a bigger cake.

You age like cheese...You just keep getting smellier!

The only reason you hate your birthday is because people give you odd gifts, scary cards with weird messages in them, and because you're getting older. Anyway, Happy Birthday!

Birthdays are like boogers, the more you have the harder it is to breathe.

Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four?

You will never be as young again as you are today, so have fun. But be careful, because you have never been this old before. Happy Birthday.