Quotes about Aging

That hand looked a hundred years old. Knuckles and gristle.

I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.

The terrible threat against life, he said in his book God Is Not Yet Dead, is not death, nor pain, nor any variation on the disasters that we so obsessively try to protect ourselves against with our social systems and personal stratagems. The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years."

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Worry leads to gray hair

When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?