Quotes About Aging

You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me. We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose. Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy.

When at last he took off his glasses, the sun was setting, casting the lake in coppers and golds. He wiped away tears and put his glasses back on. Then he looked over, gave me a sad, sweet smile, and put his palm across his heart. "Forgive an old man his memories," Pino said. "Some loves never die.

Forgive an old man his memories," Pino said. "Some loves never die.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.