Quotes About Aging

As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you

Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May?

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. -Ecclesiasticus 9:10

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

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

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building

The sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.

Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all

Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago," she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Each of these people has had to deal with illness, death, loneliness, broken marriages, and unrealized dreams. For the most part, they have accepted physical aging gracefully, and each has some way of keeping fit. What they have not accepted is the myth that learning and growing become less possible as one ages.

Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Some people age, and some just dehydrate.

reflexione, una vez más, sobre aquella vieja idea de los efectos del tiempo, ese tiempo inexorable que a nosotros nos destruye y que a las obras de arte las vuelve infinitamente más hermosas.

Everyone in this house has gray hair, walks with a cane, visits the graveyard

First rain of winter today's a day people get older

Autumn again getting old is like a bird flying into a cloud

I looked at the transprent yellow liquid in the glass. I tasted it and tasted fermentation. In other words I tasted life on Earth. For everything that lives here ferments, ages, becomes diseased. But as things made their decline from ripeness they could taste wonderful, I realised

For decades and decades and decades I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realise it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.