Quotes About Aging

I had been wrong about him Tuesday when I figured that he had always been fifty years old and always would be. He had already put on at least five years, and he had shrunk. Instead of tagging him a neat little squirt I would now call him a magnified beetle.

Helmar took his time replying. Finally he said, "I'll reserve my answer to that." "I doubt if aging will help it," Wolfe said dryly. "Now that you know that Miss Eads had not gone to Venezuela, and I assure you she had no intention of going, how do you explain her backing out from her appointment with you, her departure, her asking you not to try to find her?" "I don't have to explain it.

Old Time is never discreet or tactful.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.

Tu estado de salud actual te indica el agradecimiento que has sentido hasta ahora. Cada día te has de sentir increíblemente bien. Si te sientes pesado y la vida te supone un verdadero esfuerzo, o si no te sientes más joven de la edad que tienes, es porque tu salud ha disminuido. Una de las principales causas de esta pérdida de vitalidad es la falta de gratitud.

once a man, twice a child. we're on this earth for a short while. get that ugly frown off your face, and wear a smile.

Y las perritas más viejitas? —dije yo—. …Las canitas.

yo iba a hacer un daño un día, yo de viejo iba a ser otro experto en cómo perderlo todo, y ni siquiera ella habría podido evitarlo.

hay que tener una gran imaginación, y conservar una inteligencia anterior a la mente, y entender el amor como un lugar que se ha hallado y se ha defendido de la realidad, para llegar juntos a viejos.

You imagine you're kin to the stars. But the same sap that inflames you, freezes and splits you. And the older you grow, the deader at heart.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

In fact, Reagan couldn't remember his grandchildren's names, and he had no friends, only the husbands of Nancy's friends.

Somebody said to me after Strive that there are three stages to life: youth, middle age, and 'you're looking well'! Sadly, it's probably true. I found myself getting more 'you're looking well' comments than usual after Strive. But the adventures we do as a family help keep me young, and give me another reason to stay fit and healthy.

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! …5

the remnants of her Georgia drawl always sounded a bit sad. She made him think of an aging Scarlett O'Hara torn from Tara's halls but clinging to her pride and, with the help of a beauty parlor, her flaming hair.

And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...

Maybe the key to acclaim is simply to live long enough. But then, maybe acclaim is the foyer to death.

I'd been hearing that tune for sixty years. Musical taste changes so little. The sound of late childhood plays at our funerals.

IT'S INDIANA, 1990. Here, five years is a generation, fifty is archaeology, and anything older shades off into legend. And yet, places remember what people forget.

He's reached the age when dead is the new normal.

Musical taste changes so little. The sound of late childhood plays at our funerals.

Only very rarely does an animal living under natural conditions in the wild die of old age.