Quotes About Aging

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Looking at a friend who has had a face lift is like reading a book with half the pages ripped out.

getting older is not a gift. But we had better make it one or be left with the knowledge that we have been ungrateful for life itself.

The power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged, God has kept that good wine until now. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst.

Some of them are growing old, are worn with pitiless waves of fatigue, and are wholly unexpectant of reward in this world.

Il susino è sfiorito. Chioma verde di foglioline giovani. Nessuno adesso potrebbe sospettare la bellezza mozzafiato di prima. Così per tante donne vecchie che per pochi giorni soltanto sono state belle.

Dying is the art we have to master, it seems to say— not death; late love settles into us as spring romances never could.

One wonders if the time will ever come when men . . . will lie down as gracefully and as ripe.

When you are old, at evening candlelit,Beside the fire bending to your wool,Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writThis praise for me when I was beautiful."

C'est le trait terrible du vieillissement : il vous donne bientôt la gaieté du coeur qui permet d'accepter comme allant de soi des retranchements sur les sens et sur le coeur, considérés auparavant comme de monstrueuses avaries.

My girlfriend says I have frontal-lobe epilepsy. I have visions. They have slowed down as I've gotten older, but I still have them.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I sound, convincingly, twice my age whenever I visit New York City neighborhoods I frequented in my 20s and grumble about how much they have changed.

My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'

My mother is getting up there in age, and sometimes I go visit her in Florida. I cook for all of her friends. Sometimes I have to avoid the table because I do not want to hear what they're talking about.

Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.

I grew up going to funerals and visiting people in nursing homes. I'm not as afraid of dealing with the dying as maybe some other people may be.