Best 924 quotes in «aging quotes» category

It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

I will stay in my bed!

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

Life, the permission to know death.

Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional.

My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Most of our future lies ahead.

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

Oh, my God. I've just told you how old I am. Nobody knows how old I am. I'm going to have to kill you now.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Old age is the verdict of life.