Aging Quotes

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

With age, art and life become one.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I think it's the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move to New York. If you're a nice broad they'll look after you.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

We are tomorrow's past.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline