Aging Quotes

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.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

I'm going to live to be twenty-five,' she said, 'then die.

Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.''What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.'A...

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just mak...

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions ...

But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed a...

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did a...

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work lon...

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.

An explanation of an old man’s mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with reg...

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting ...

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a w...

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fa...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything...

...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days....

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year ...

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you...

You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day....

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer...

A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.Wron...

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this ...

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...