Aging Quotes

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.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is pra...

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, b...

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recog...

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've pas...

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon da...

It was dawning on the wizards that they were outside the University, at night and without permission...

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as eve...

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

I learned not to fear infinity,The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,The dying of time in the w...

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could on...

To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old...

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old foxes want no tutors.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not...

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly ...

Everyday is one less day.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Age and illness made one a dualist

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

The compensation of growing old...was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but o...

now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not los...

Odder still how possessed I am with the feeling that now, aged 50, I’m just poised to shoot forth qu...

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills ...

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pl...

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anythi...

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" a...

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, cou...

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the wor...

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after facul...

OctoberO love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old,A...

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Aut...

And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't...

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---b...

The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And...

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This...

Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's gett...

An old codger rampant and still learning.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the p...

Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.

As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are r...

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting ol...

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a w...

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patie...

I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to d...

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come clo...

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

I want to be able to remember it all, not just the books but the newsrooms and the playgroups and th...

The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that di...

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ba...

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change ...

In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped ke...

I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few ...

I'm falling into disrepair

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As re...

Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciti...

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not...

One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.