Quotes on Aging

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.