Quotes About Aging

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam.

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.

I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.