Quotes About Aging Gracefully

#1. Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Jeanne Moreau

#2. I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

Dave Matthews

#3. I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

Danielle Steel

#4. Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

Sandhya Jane

#5. Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Courteney Cox

#6. It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

Prabal Gurung

#7. You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

Nikki Sixx

#8. Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.

Iris Apfel

#9. I believe in aging gracefully.

Tatjana Patitz

#10. And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Audrey Hepburn

#11. The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.

Donna Lynn Hope

#12. I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still relatively healthy and of sound mind.

Lisa J. Shultz

#13. It's often only as beauty fades that it becomes apparent it was ever there.

Jane Tara

#14. I look at Gloria with her red hair and glass of champagne and expression of utter disdain and wonder how many expletives she'd manage to fit into a sentence if I asked her to teach me to knit or bake me a cake.

Clare Furniss

#15. Everything breaks down but desire. And because we are old, doctors try to shame that out of us. Young punks! Lose one's youth, and doctors take it as axiomatic that you've lost your mind, your balls.

Kiana Davenport

#16. At a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Anna Quindlen

#17. Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

Lynsay Sands

#18. Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process handles us.

Cindy McDonald

#19. -I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven't you ever made a mistake?
-I'm old! Of course I've made mistakes, you stupid little shit!

Drea Damara

#20. The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

Emma Thompson

#21. Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing, said the Butterfly.

Sabrina Newby

#22. I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.

Lemmy Kilmister

#23. As you grow older; keeping warm becomes more important than looking good.

Ulysses Brave

#24. I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#25. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.

Audrey Hepburn

#26. When you're seventy-five, you are still going to be you.

Linda Gray

#27. It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.

Jules Renard

#28. Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#29. Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege.

Amy Poehler

#30. 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

#31. We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?

Ashton Applewhite

#32. You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

George Bernard Shaw

#33. We forget that 'old' in age typically does not mean 'old' in terms of relevance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.

Swami Chetanananda

#35. I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

L.Joe

#36. When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it's a privileged denied to many.' She glared at me and responded, 'spoken like a truly young idiot.

Dan Pearce

#37. I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

Rebecca Johns

#38. Charlotte didn't care. She was floating away in a sea of happiness, wrapped up in the beauty of second love.

Lindsay Detwiler

#39. Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Victoria Moran

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Lydia M. Child

#43. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

#44. When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt.

Donna Lynn Hope

#45. If we counted wrinkles as we do pages in a book, some of us are fast approaching "epic" status!

Jo Ann V. Glim