Quotes About Aging

Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss.

It is important to remember that aging and growing old are not necessarily the same.

Death does not discriminate; Some die old, some at 8. So remember during all your grief, our visit here is very brief.

For old age makes us incapable of performing our duties but not, at first, of desiring them.

I do not ask to live to a hundred," my aunt would say, for she preferred to have no definite limit fixed to the number of her days.

Comme sur un plant où les fleurs mûrissent à des époques différentes, je les avais vues, en de vieilles dames, sur cette plage de Balbec, ces dures graines, ces mous tubercules, que mes amies seraient un jour. Mais qu'importait ? en ce moment c'était la saison des fleurs.

As on a plant whose flowers open at different seasons, I had seen, expressed in the form of old ladies, on this Balbec shore, those shrivelled seed-pods, those flabby tubers which my friends would one day be. But what matter? For the moment it was their flowering-time

But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter's fears, felt every time someone of her own age "disappeared" that she had gained a victory in a contest against formidable competitors.

I recently turned forty-two, a complicated stage of life. You're young, but not very, you're not elderly, but you are a bit old. Neither fish nor fowl. It's the transition from one thing to the other, the real start of deterioration. Sometimes I feel like I want to have aged already, to be an old woman who has resolved all her expectations.

like the last few lays of an old man waiting for impotence to strike. I

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Alzheimer's was far more terrifying than death.

Aging was essentially decay, the exhaustion of the body's ability to repair and renew itself.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Do you think preservatives make you live longer, or do they kill you off, asks Fran. She has often wondered about this.

Robots would save the elderly from the woes of the ageing flesh.

She has often suspected that her last words to herself and in this world will prove to be 'You bloody old fool' or, perhaps, depending on the mood of the day or the time of the night, 'you fucking idiot'.

It is a necessary part of a rule of life to cherish our bodies, care for them, and see the beauty in their intricate design. But too often, most of us - men and women both - come to dislike them as the years pass, or at the very least to feel that they need major remodeling... We fight to stave off aging or at least to disguise it. Yet in his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul reminds us of the sanctity of the body (1 Cor. 6:19-20)...

De ahí nacen las grietas, como un cristal que se resquebraja y sigue en pie. No se envejece día tras día, se envejece de golpe, de un modo amargo. Una descarga que nos fulmina, nos ensucia... Nos tiñe el rostro de amargura.

The older you get, the higher you wear your underwear. Like rings on a tree. Eighty, ninety years old, your breasts are inside them. When you die, they just pull them up over your head.

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.