Quotes About Aging

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that's a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar - cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.

When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

I'm just a shade over 200 lbs., playing basketball with my son, running, hiking, swimming, and feeling way better than I did at 40. 50 doesn't feel so bad!

I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

Today, I'm 60, I'm not married, I don't have any kids. I would give up some Social Security to save a system that Americans are going to depend on now and in the future.

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

I achieved what all artists dread: I had outlived most of my money and all of my talent.

Retired people don't so much die as they let themselves fall asleep a bit at a time. They become passive and inactive and they forget they're alive.

House dresses are still available; I did my research. The only problem procuring them is that you'll need to order from the kind of website where the pitch for their stylishness can be summed up by the following: "Zip-Front Housecoats for Elderly People - Faded Flowers Pattern." It's as if the editor of Vogue penned that evocative line herself.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

I can tell I'm getting older, because I find myself using words like "spacious," "roomy," and "comfortable" when I'm buying underwear.