Quotes about Aging

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.

The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,

Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

Truly, truly, I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”

By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: You could try something else.

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

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.