Quotes About Aging

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

From "Rock Star" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. What happens to a rock star When he gets too old to perform When his public has faded Like the strength his voice once had? What happens to a rock star When he's treated like yesterday's news And the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?

Wenn ich heute an die Frau denke, die ich einmal war, die Frau mit dem kleinen Doppelkinn, die sich sehr bemühte, jünger auszusehen, als sie war, empfinde ich wenig Sympathie für sie. Ich möchte aber nicht zu hart über sie urteilen. Sie hatte ja nie eine Möglichkeit, ihr Leben bewußt zu gestalten.

Suppose you have a village of 100 people. If half of them die at age five, perhaps from such childhood ailments, twenty die at age sixty, and the remaining thirty die at seventy-five, the average life span in the society is thirty-seven, but not a single person actually reached the age of thirty hale and hearty and then suddenly began to senesce.

Life is just a slow march towards death.

I dream of hiking into my old age.

I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining ... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.