Aging Quotes

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.

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt t...

MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grie...

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certa...

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

All would live long but none would be old.

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his...

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of he...

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destinati...

a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.

I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your moth...

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone throug...

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth...

We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remin...

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up ...

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some ...

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in ...

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with som...

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every...

The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face...

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is imm...

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we kno...

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to beg...

By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're n...

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams ...

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou...

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that ...

Nature felt no change, and was ever young.

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretch...

She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia whi...

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illo...

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretch...

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a res...

Il arrive un âge où ils ne sont plus séduisants, ni «en forme», comme on dit. Ils ne peuvent plus bo...

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not h...

The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: th...

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they g...

In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a ...

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs w...

...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows ...

Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, t...

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the pa...

At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a ...

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano...

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the card...

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, ...

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, ...

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope ...

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I alwa...

There isn't a thing I can't do now that I didn't do when I was twenty-one...which gives you an idea ...

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil...

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The...

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it ta...

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ough...

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.