Quotes About Aging

Tenía veinte años y era joven; tenía treinta años y era joven; tenía cuarenta y era joven. Ahora tengo cincuenta años y soy "todavía joven". Todavía quiere decir: se termina.

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.

pero el silencio oscuro repite ojalá puedas ojalá puedas contigo y con los otros y además llegues a viejo para narrar con soltura esta hazaña grisácea

Todavía tengo casi todos mis dientes, casi todos mis cabellos y poquísimas canas; puedo hacer y deshacer el amor, trepar una escalera de dos en dos y correr cuarenta metros detrás del ómnibus, o sea que no debería sentirme viejo, pero el grave problema es que antes no me fijaba en estos detalles.

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

But never in his saddest dreams had he thought he'd spend his last years dusting this enormous old house for no one at all.

Leaning on a cane, with a book tucked under her free arm, she navigated carefully across the grass, her eyes on the ground, and then just as she got to where we sat, she raised her head - her white hairs starry as dandelion fluff in the morning sun - and smiled at me. "Courage, dear heart," she said in a ringing, surprisingly young voice, then dropped her eyes and walked on.

When You Are Old' by W. B. Yeats, which appeared in 1892.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face—' Her hand touched his, stopping him.

The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!

We can be very cruel to one another, even when we're old enough to know better, when we've outgrown the intense selfishness of youth. She

Neuroimaging has shown that as we age, our cognitive center of gravity shifts from the imaginative right brain to the logical left brain.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

Growing old, overweight and fat is not inevitable.

Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children." —MILTON GREENBLATT, M.D.

The most important thing you can do for healthy aging is to balance your blood sugar and keep your insulin levels low and your cells insulin-sensitive, which means eating a low-sugar, low-starch diet with plenty of good-quality fats and protein, and a boatload of phytochemical- and fiber-rich fruits and vegetables.

10 percent of Americans are deficient in vitamin C and actually have scurvy. More than 90 percent are deficient in omega-3 fats, 80 percent are low in vitamin D, and 45 percent are deficient in magnesium and iron, with folate and zinc not far behind. Lack of these nutrients moves us rapidly down the trajectory of disease and aging.

If there is one single cause of accelerated aging and diseases of aging, it is this: sugar and starch (especially flour) and the resulting metabolic chaos and insulin resistance. You might be tired of hearing this over and over, but eliminating sugar and flour is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your health and extend your life, not only for your hormones and neurotransmitters, but also for every other core system.

It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother Earth' is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan.

An old man who's happy not to have cowshit on his neck.

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.