Quotes about Aging

The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.

We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusions of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.