Quotes about Aging

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

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

Those thoughts come to me in the night, those thought and thoughts of becoming sick or helpless, of the nursing home, of lingering death. I gnaw again the old bones of the fear of what is to come, and grieve with a sisterly grief over Grandmam and Mrs. Feltner and the other old women who have gone before. Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, 'Thy will be done,' and then again I am free and can go to sleep.