Quotes About Aging

The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.

Be careful to let no fretting injure your health as I have suffered it—health is the greatest of blessings—with health and hope we should be content to live, and so you will find as you grow older.

Women look their oldest at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day. 51

We think people can spend 35–40 years working and saving, then stop working and go on for another 20–30–40 years at the same comfort level – but with a growing percentage of retirees and a shrinking number of workers paying into the system. I'm sorry, but that's magical thinking.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

I miss being care free and not worrying about all the stuff I have to worry about now that I'm older.

The wrinkled face that shows life's experiences, the rough hands that mold the world, the withered body that stand proud in spite of difficulties encountered. That is real beauty..