Quotes About Aging

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair. Time, doing this to me, may alter too. My sorrow, into something I can bear.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.