Quotes About Aging

You get older, but you don't ever feel grown up

Every now and then I'd squint my eyes to visualize a time when I'd start feeling the craving myself: when I was thirty, it would be at thirty-two; at thirty-two, I'd be ready by thirty-six; and on it went.

My not being a father had kept me young, had kept my curiosity awake.

Given the correlation between aging and death, declaring that you can't stand today's music might actually mark the first stage of the dying process.

Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!

For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

They camped that night under a full moon and a sky crowded with stars that made Froi forget that there was an old man waiting to die and remember that there was a kingdom dying to live.

Hiring homecare is another option.

I couldn't help thinking, with the required pinch of rue and regret, how different my life would have been if I had been born homosexual in 1950 instead of...But that's a tiresome game, and I'm too old to play it.

A velhice o que é senão a morte estagiando em nosso corpo?

Perseguida pelo medo da velhice, deixei envelhecer a nossa relação. Ocupada em me fazer bela, deixei escapar a verdadeira beleza, que apenas mora no desnudar do olhar. O lençol esfriou, a cama se desaventurou. Esta é a diferença: a mulher que tu encontraste aí, em África, fica bela apenas para ti. Eu ficava bela para mim, que é um outro modo de dizer: para ninguém.

INSÔNIA Envelhecem as horas, Entontecem ponteiros como punhais vazando insaciáveis relógios. O sono é um vidro onde se guardam cansaços de antes de termos nascido. Piso estilhaços desse vidro, tropeçam-me os olhos nas pestanas: um tropel de luz assusta um bando de aves sem asas. A noite, em mim, ganhou diurno vício: uma outra vez, tomei luar na veia.

O tempo é um fumo, nos vai secando as carnes.

A velhice é uma gordura na alma.

Aos 10 anos todos nos dizem que somos espertos, mas que nos faltam ideias próprias. Aos 20 anos dizem que somos muito espertos, mas que não venhamos com ideias. Aos 30 anos pensamos que ninguém mais tem ideias. Aos 40 achamos que as ideias dos outros são todas nossas. Aos 50 pensamos com suficiente sabedoria para já não ter ideias. Aos 60 ainda temos ideias mas esquecemos do que estávamos a pensar. Aos 70 só pensar já nos faz dorrmir.

People don't realize that if they began working in their twenties and retire at age sixty that they may spend as much time in retirement as they did working.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down a large portion of her life long ago. Piece by piece she had given it away as she wrestled with existence, as her self was absorbed as nourishment into his life and the life of the children and the community. And laid down most piercingly, as she abandoned, one by one, the shapes of the dreams she had planned. Only to take them up again in other forms.

As the years passed, Ethan noticed that he recognized fewer faces than he had at the beginning, and by the same token an increasing number of residents failed to recognize him. He had never wanted acknowledgment, and thus he was at ease with the changing situation, merely finding it interesting the way so many people now walked past him, or through him, it seemed, as if he were invisible. This was to his liking,

Bean mentions that the tree does not flower until 30 to 40 years of age. American references have stated 10 to 14 years. All authors, including this one, tend to pass along time-honored information without determining, first hand, the actual response in question.

It was all very well growing old disgracefully and running your umbrella along life's railings, but when you'd annoyed as many people as possible and told yourself you'd thoroughly enjoyed it, you still had to return home to a cold hearth and deal with it on your own.

What counts is how many years you get before losing your marbles,

As we get older, we're all going to lose a few of our marbles.

In fact, behavioral choices account almost entirely for a person's overall health and longevity by age sixty. The older you are, the more your choices determine how long and how well you live.