Top 100 Aging Life Quotes
#1. What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#2. Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.
Joan Didion
#3. Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
Malcolm Boyd
#4. The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
Natasha Lyonne
#5. There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
Colum McCann
#7. A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.
Hamza Yusuf
#8. Although generally our sight diminishes with age; I submit that our vision improves. The older we get, the more clearly we see our life's decisions played out to their logical conclusions.
David C. Maloney
#9. Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
Alain De Botton
#10. Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.
Zack Love
#11. It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.
John O'Donohue
#12. You get older, and you make your choices, and one by one the doors shut.
Rebecca Podos
#13. Victory" in TIbet means liberation from cyclic existence (life, drama, aging, disease, death)
Wake Breathe Love
#14. Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.
Miriam Makeba
#15. Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, you shall see life differently and you shall get a better understanding of the journey of life: how you lived it and how you should have lived it!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#16. What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?
Goldie Hawn
#17. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.
Mitch Albom
#18. He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.
Colin Cotterill
#19. Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
Lynsay Sands
#20. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#21. The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
Ben Kingsley
#22. For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.
Stewart O'Nan
#23. Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.
Jill Conner Browne
#24. Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.
Susan Jeffers
#25. Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.
Ahmir Questlove Thompson
#26. In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue.
Karen Jones Gowen
#27. An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.
Diana Athill
#28. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth Elliot
#29. Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.
Lynsay Sands
#30. You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.
Brenda De Banzie
#31. As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.
Crystal Woods
#32. The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ...
Simone De Beauvoir
#33. I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.
Stephanie Danler
#35. The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.
Mason Cooley
#36. To continue what one had been doing
which was Dante's idea of hell
is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#37. The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
Alex Witchel
#38. Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
Phyllis Diller
#39. [G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn't have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268)
Victoria Moran
#40. The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.
Roman Payne
#41. One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.
Alain De Botton
#42. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.
Rita Dove
#43. I love opera. Si. But I am old. No passion in my life, you know? I work, I walk slowly now through my years ... but opera! I see, I hear that passion, Eva. Is like the passion of youth. And I live again. I feel something.
J.J. Brown
#44. You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.
Mitch Albom
#45. I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.
Amy Sedaris
#46. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky
#47. Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.
Brian Rathbone
#48. You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)
Victoria Moran
#49. In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.
Anthony Powell
#50. Growing old is one of the ways the soul nudges itself into attention to the spiritual aspect of life. The body's changes teach us about fate, time, nature, mortality, and character. Aging forces us to decide what is important in life.
Thomas Moore
#51. The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.
Auliq Ice
#52. When the years are dying in the arms of your life,
the earth is in pain moving around the sun.
Munia Khan
#53. At the beginning of our life is birth, during which we suffer, and at the end of our life is death, during which we also suffer. Between these two come aging and illness. No matter how wealthy you are or how physically fit you are, you have to suffer through these circumstances.
Dalai Lama XIV
#54. Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?
Leonardo Donofrio
#55. And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
Martin Amis
#56. 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.
Henri Nouwen
#57. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.
Daniel Woodrell
#58. I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
Zoe Saldana
#59. An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience.
Eleanor Brownn
#60. At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.
Richard Linklater
#61. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)
Victoria Moran
#63. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
Nicole Krauss
#64. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.
Etgar Keret
#65. This one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing
Michael Chabon
#66. It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It was like being vaguely drunk all the time.
Geoff Dyer
#67. Frankie," she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner.
Helen Hudson
#68. We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.
Donna Lynn Hope
#69. The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.
A.J. Darkholme
#70. If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.
Carew Papritz
#71. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.
Woody Allen
#72. It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.
Lisa J. Shultz
#73. Where have the years gone, Ruby Rose? Sometimes I have to stop and think about how old I am. When I wake up in the morning, before I move this tired old body or look in the blasted mirror, I swear I'm still a young man. It just feels like yesterday. I don't know how it's gone so fast.
Lea Davey
#74. The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.
Michelle Franklin
#75. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Brad Herzog
#76. Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that.
Why do you love them?
Because you do, said Arthur. Because they don't know what's coming and maybe you do.
Jane Smiley
#77. You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.
Ariel Gore
#78. I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#79. You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones ... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this thing.
Lisa Jey Davis
#80. It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone and became her. Then I began to like what I invented. And finally I was what I was again ... Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
#81. I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes.
Lisa Jey Davis
#82. Getting older is inevitable--being old is a choice.
Cheryl L. Ilov
#83. Though the process of aging continues, inwardly you grow stronger with the passing years. Those who live close to Me develop an inner aliveness that makes them seem youthful in spite of their years. Let My Life shine through you, as you walk in the Light with Me.
Sarah Young
#84. Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
Kathryn Orzech
#85. Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
Yoko Ono
#86. My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
Amy Waldman
#87. After all these years, his best friend is malaria.
Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.
Louis Bayard
#88. You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.
Gary Lutz
#89. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#90. Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#91. The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
Anais Nin
#92. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
Ann Packer
#93. If I find out that you wasted the best years of my little girl's life because of your fine-wine-aging process, I'm going to kill you.
Wesley Chu
#94. Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.
Alyscia Cunningham
#95. ..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?
Dick Van Dyke
#96. Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.
Diane Keaton
#97. I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
Pablo Casals
#98. A life can change in a tenth of
a second.
or sometimes it can take
70
years.
Charles Bukowski
#99. Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.
Stephenie Meyer
#100. He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.
Matthew Thomas
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