Quotes About Aging

He had observed so many men just like himself over the years, men in retirement walking wee, quivery dogs over the streets of their neighborhood, a wrinkled plastic bag in their free hand;

tenía diecinueve años y me sentía como una anciana cuya vida ya había pasado. Entonces me di cuenta de que uno es joven mientras hace planes para el futuro y ese futuro es un misterio que le atrae, pero al que también teme. Cuando eso deja de ocurrir, es viejo.

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.

C'è stato un tempo in cui osavo sognare che Miriam e io, superati i novanta, saremmo spirati insieme, come Filemone e Bauci. E allora un munifico Zeus, con un lieve tocco del caduceo, ci avrebbe trasformato in due alberi vicini, coi rami che si sfiorano d'inverno, le foglie che si intrecciano a primavera.

recognize, with a slight shock, that I really don't believe how old I am, and when I do believe it I want to forget it.

There is no forced retirement from aging creatively.

Later life is a special period of development, with unique limitations and opportunities. And it may be the most important phase of your life. You can change a lot in later life—if you really want to.

believe that trying to become the best person we can be, aging well, and coming to terms with our issues might be the most important and meaningful goals to strive for in later life.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.

Alone, you will grow old faster in mind. Like a fish in the depths of the endless emptiness of nonsense.

Problems accelerate time and time subconsciously accelerates aging.

The main thing in the opposite field is the energy of love. The body grows old over time, only the priceless energy of presence remains.

Everything seems possible during childhood, but things start to change as we age and face the realities of the universe.

She was only forty-seven according to the file his aide had put together for him, but had gone totally gray by thirty-two. That early sign of aging was a genetic family trait that hadn't been bred out, likely because it gave the possessors a regal appearance, regardless of their chronological age.

Ten years was a long time for evidence to age and fade. For flesh to disappear. For everyone to forget that Nina Parvati Rai had been a living, breathing woman who'd loved music and cooking and had a mind like a computer. In another life she could have been a professor. In this life she'd been a rich man's wife. Now she was just bones.

Seventy-five and seventy-nine and in on hurry to move into a retirement home, they treated old age like an attempt at hostile takeover.

Maybe in Sue Cox's case they shouldn't be called laugh lines, Bena thought. Not in Bena's own case either. Who was it that thought women got wrinkles from laughing so much?

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all.

Liza, Liza, no hay nada seguro, pero… yo estoy todo lo segura que puede estar una persona. Quiero abrazarte siempre, quiero estar contigo para siempre, quiero… Quiero incluso que algún día seamos una pareja de viejecitas ya sin pasión ni nada. Que nos sentemos en mecedoras y nos riamos de lo pegajosas que éramos de jóvenes, al sol en algún porche…