Quotes About Aging

He was a funny old dog. He liked strawberries.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.

When she was old and forgetful, who would search for her if she wandered off? Who would find her and tuck her into the front seat of their car and drive her home? Where would home be, and with whom? The future was a great unknown for everyone, but maybe even a little more so when you had no significant other, no children, no living relatives.

Don't wish your life away. Time passes quickly enough." Another of her favorite expressions was "The older you get, the faster time flies." The truth of the latter has been made clearer to me with each passing year.

We are born to experience blossoming, ripening and wasting.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

Cuanto más se envejece, más se siente que saber gozar del presente es un don precioso, comparable a un estado de gracia.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over—and then what?

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.