Quotes about Aging
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it
- Cicero
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
- Confucius
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- CS Lewis
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
- Leo Buscaglia
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
- Leo Buscaglia
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building
- Oscar Wilde
Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.
- Nicole Kidman
When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.
- Olga Tokarczuk
With age, many men come down with testosterone autism, the symptoms of which are a gradual decline in social intelligence and capacity for interpersonal communication, as well as a reduced ability to formulate thoughts.
- Olga Tokarczuk
And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.