Quotes About Aging

And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of what they were to be Ã¢â'¬Â¦

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

No todo lo que brilla ha de ser oro: siempre oíste decir al mundo a coro. Ha vendido su vida mucha gente por mirarme por fuera solamente: no hay tumba de oro sin gusano y lloro. Si fueras tan sensato como osado, joven de cuerpo y viejo en buen sentido, tal respuesta no habrías recibido: adiós: tu pretensión ha fracasado

Zenginler, hiçbir ?eye ald?rmama, hiçbir ?eyden heyecanlanmama lüksüne sahiptirler; bu nedenle çok ya?arlar.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are;One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.What is the secret of the trick?How did I get so old so quick?

Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends

I am tarred and feathered with Time.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.

With age, many men come down with testosterone autism, the symptoms of which are a gradual decline in social intelligence and capacity for interpersonal communication, as well as a reduced ability to formulate thoughts.

Once we have reached a certain age, it's hard to be reconciled to the fact that people are always going to be impatient with us.

She thought about how hno one had taught us to grow old, how we didn't know what it would be like. When we were young we though of old age as an ailment that affected only other people. While we, for reasons never entirely clear, would remain young. We treated the old as though they were responsible for their condition somehow, as though they'd done something to earn it, like some types of diabetes or arteriosclerosis. And yet this was an ailment that affected the absolute most innocent.

her hands are hennaed in a complex design made less legible by each passing day.

Rzeczywisto?? si? zestarza?a, stetrycza?a, bo przecie? podlega ona zdecydowanie takim samym prawom jak ka?dy ?ywy organizm - starzeje si?. Jej najdrobniejsze sk?adniki - sensy, ulegaj? apoptozie jak komórki cia?a. Apoptoza to ?mier? naturalna, spowodowana zm?czeniem i wyczerpaniem materii.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages. Just like the cells of the body, its tiniest components, the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means "the dropping of petals." The world has dropped its petals.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

The cherry blossoms have faded now in hue - gazing emptily upon the long spring rains, I too know what it is to age.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I'll concentrate on that. Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget her—maybe I'll die trying.

This year I am twenty-seven. My hair has become much greyer. Most people would take me for over forty.