Quotes about Ageing

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

At what age , he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful solution, but then ageing is not a graceful bussines.

I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Ageing. We laugh about it, and we groan about it. We resist it, but we cant't stop it. And with the chuckles and wrinkles come serious thoughts and questions about what happens when we die. Is death when we go to sleep? Or is death when we finally wake up?

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

But Abraham believed, therefore he was young; for he who always hopes for the best becomes old, and he who is always prepared for the worst grows old early, but he who believes preserves an eternal youth.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.