Quotes About Aging

Each day is one step further from birth, one moment closer to dismissal. How we travel this path is our own decision.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we got so old!

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

You know you''re getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

Gray is a crown of splendor: it is attained by a righteous life.

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

You miss so much when you're young. It's fine to be old. So exciting. And I'm not going to retire.

Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.

When you get to my age of course you know you have to confront death. I want to die without anger, without fear and consciously, and these three things are not easy.

When I entered the kitchen, Grandma was chopping onions, tears rolling down her face. My eyes started to burn. "I hate raw onions," I said. "You'll appreciate them once you get older. Then, when you need torch and you don't want anyone to know you're crying, you can just chop onions.

Pero el tiempo corre y la vuelve a ella cada día más apetecible, más madura, más fresca, más mujer, y en cambio a mi me amenaza cada día con volverme más achacoso, más gastado, menos valiente, menos vital.

La experiencia es buena cuando viene de la mano del vigor; después, cuando el vigor se va, uno pasa a ser una decorosa pieza de museo, cuyo único valor es ser un recuerdo de lo que se fue. La experiencia y el vigor son coetáneos por muy poco tiempo. Yo estoy ahora en ese poco tiempo. Pero no es una suerte envidiable.

Aún me quedan, así lo espero, unos cuantos años de amistad, de pasable salud, de rutinarios afanes, de expectativa ante la suerte, pero ¿cuántos me quedan de placer? Tenía veinte años y era joven; tenía treinta y era joven; tenía cuarenta y era joven. Ahora tengo cincuenta años y soy "todavía joven". Todavía quiere decir: se termina.

Pero si yo la pierdo un día [...], perdería con ella la última oportunidad de vivir, el último respiro del tiempo, porque si bien mi corazón ahora se siente generoso, alegre, renovado, sin ella volvería a ser un corazón definitivamente envejecido.

Cuando me jubile, tal vez lo mejor sea abandonarme al ocio, a una especie de modorra compensatoria, a fin de que los nervios, los músculos, la energía se relajen de a poco y se acostumbren bien a morir.