Quotes About Aging

I'm doing the best I can. Getting old, that's what it is. I'll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I'm no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,' said the ferryman.

One day you're breaking hearts, and then you blink and it's decades gone and your heart attacks you.

And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short, When you reach September.

In expecting to grow "old" at a given age we may unconsciously set up a negative goal image for our Creative Mechanism to accomplish.

Youth is given. One must put it awaylike a doll in a closet,take it out and play with it onlyon holidays.How to Be Old [1963]

October I sit with braided fingers and closed eyes in a span of late sunlight. The spokes are closing. It is fall: warm milk of light, though from an aging breast. I do not mean to pray. The posture for thanks or supplication is the same as for weariness or relief. But I am glad for the luck of light. Surely it is godly, that it makes all things begin, and appear, and become actual to each other. Light that's sucked into the eye, warming the brain with wires of color.

Verovala sam u nešto. U život, u tebe, u decu, u nešto nepoznato što ?e biti lepo, u neku nadu, svejedno u šta. Starost je ružna najviše zato što nam uzme sposobnost da u nešto verujemo.

Ukopavanje je pravi pocetak starenja, jer je covek mlad sve dok se ne boji da zapocinje.

?etrdeset mi je godina, ružno doba: ?ovjek je još mlad da bi imao želja a ve? star da ih ostvaruje.

No one values their life less than a young man, and then later, the older he gets and the less reason he has for living, the more he clings to life.

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

When people express nostalgia for youth, I always suspect they have inadequate recall.

Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump of middle age, heading rapidly toward those year that no one like to speak of. The best parts had already passed for people Jonah's age. By now you were meant to have become what you would finally be, and to gracefully and unobtrusively stay in that state for the rest of your life.

We had a good marriage," he said. "I just thought it would be so much longer." Then he shrugged, and coughed away a sob, this thin man in his sixties with the soft androgynous face that aging seemed to bring, as though all the hormones were finally mixed up in a big coed pot because it just didn't matter anymore.

Because as you get older, life sort of eats away at you like battery acid, and all the things you once loved are suddenly harder to find. And when you do find them, you don't have time to enjoy them anymore, you know?

and he was afraid she was going to get that middle-aged coven-member look cultivated by some older women with long hair.

all the girls had secretly sprung up in height, even as the teachers and mothers had gotten squashed and lost height and calcium, their bones ground down with an invisible pestle.

That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time. And

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

We're all dying from the moment we're born. That's all we do our entire lives, is die.