Aging Quotes

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility...

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would ...

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm ...

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the bene...

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at o...

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a smal...

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the y...

Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but ...

All things left her, allBut one. Her highborn courtlinessAccompanied her to the end,Beyond the raptu...

There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall again,There is a street close by forbidden to my feet...

When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it ea...

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. An...

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around m...

I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence...

Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing d...

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assist...

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it...

Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it ...

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In o...

My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never...

You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could ris...

After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting...

Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can af...

It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwi...

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over...

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made...

People talk about how wonderful the world must seem to children, and that's true enough. But childre...

I feel as if I am being left out, as though I’m some straggler and people can’t quite remember to st...

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are ...

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get ...

this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing

I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their live...

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the res...

And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this ...

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant...

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning ...

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignor...

The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.

Our first youth is of no value; for we are never conscious of it, until after it is gone. But someti...

[The thief-taker] was conspicuous by his age, I should estimate he is in his middle fifties, and by ...

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from ...

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for th...

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Today I am 65 years old. I still look good. I appreciate and enjoy my age. A lot of people resist tr...

To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is ...

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...

In these days of physical fitness, hair dye, and plastic surgery, you can live much of your life wit...

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it is...

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

I am tarred and feathered with Time.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It'...

Wisdom comes with winters

LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very high...

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As lo...

How much longer would we go on being old young people? They wavedgoodbye to me. I was moved by Annet...

I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and ...

Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying t...

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see my...

It is time to be old To take in sail.

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of cent...

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, ...

I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; ...

It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted lik...

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not ...

I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

When pain ends gain ends too.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times a...

Grow old along with me--the best is yet to be,

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be som...

Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age,...

We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and be...

It's not cold in here, you're just dying.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out a...

More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the...

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life a...

..Thirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself.

Hi,’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten...

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, t...

My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed m...

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.