Quotes About Aging

The oldster looked at his Crowner, his brows lifted high over his pale eyes, adding wrinkles to an already wrinkled brow.

As with all great natural beauties, she simultaneously doesn't feel attractive and frets about losing her looks. She once flew to London and spent two hundred and fifty quid having her hair dyed the same colour as it was when she left.

The man following her had been handsome in his youth, but time had clawed its signature across his features.

They call it Second Lifetime Syndrome, and it happens when a sorcerer watches her family and friends age and die around her. - China

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

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

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. —LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ

The physical examination in older persons, however, also serves to identify treatable impairments such as muscle weakness, gait instability, or sensory impairments, and to directly observe the performance of key functional tasks.

It's every man for himself," he said, and went back to reading. After my mother had died and he'd been laid off from his machinist job over in Milton, he'd retreated into near silence and the print reality of other worlds. Connection was tough for him and only getting tougher as he aged. Maggie asked me once if the reason I wanted to become a writer was to somehow make contact with him.

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61 Rod Stewart was 66 Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.