Quotes about Aging

This is Old Age; but then, thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty; which will change 540 To withered, weak, and gray; thy senses then, Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forego, To what thou hast; and, for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry 545 To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.

I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.

The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

From this one may see that there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that old have no opportunities, no possibilities in the future. But they have more than that. Instead of possibilities in the future, they have realities in the past—the potentialities they have actualized, the meanings they have fulfilled, the values they have realized—and nothing and nobody can ever remove these assets from the past.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.

That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.