Quotes on Aging

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.