Quotes about Aging

Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife's abandonment. Covenants

Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger