Quotes About Aging

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You can see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart.

I can't see how I'll make it a year this way," he said. "It seems impossible, I know. But when we're old and doddering, this year will seem like a blink.

I might just crawl under my bed and not come out until I'm old and doddering and can't remember feeling anything for anyone at all.

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart. How'd that be?" "I'd love to look like you," I said. "I'd love to be you.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

Young people could get away with rough clothing but unless the elderly dressed with care they looked like homeless vagabonds

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

In old age her voice had become thin as a bird's, but her reading was still beautiful to him.

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

She ate it and cried. Soon, he put the melting ice cream away. "Shura," Tatiana whispered, "darling, forget what should have been. Remember all that was." "Tatiasha, babe," Alexander whispered, coming back to bed to be covered, "my one and only wife, forget our age, our splendid youth, forget it all and let our crazy love make us young.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

King Basilius, who doth bow 'Neath the weight of years, the doom Age imposes, more inclined To the studies of the mind Than to women, wifeless, lone, Without sons, to fill his throne

Where did the time go? Yesterday, I was a girl, and today, I suddenly find myself in the autumn of my years with the cold winds of winter breathing down my neck.

Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less.

Florence had noticed one or two eccentricities in herself lately, which might be the result of hard work, or of age, or of living alone. When the letters came, for example, she often found herself wasting time in looking at the postmarks and wondering whoever they could be from, instead of opening them in a sensible manner and finding out at once.

Old age is not the same thing as historical interest,' he said. 'Otherwise we should both of us be more interesting than we are.

I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us.

For one's past grows to a point where it is longer than one's future, and then it can become too great a burden.

Y que la vida es larga, hasta que deja de serlo