Top 100 Quotes About Aging Well
#1. Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
Annabelle Selldorf
#2. Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.
James Salter
#3. 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
#4. We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
Aristotle.
#5. I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.
Joan Didion
#6. A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in.
Dan Groat
#7. Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.
Mehmet Oz
#8. If one operates on the principle that everything can be a learning experience, then of course aging needn't be so painful."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami
#9. My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks exactly like my grandma, only my girl older.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
James Lee Schmidt
#11. We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.
Michio Kaku
#12. Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege.
Amy Poehler
#14. I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
Donald Hall
#15. People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
Paul Newman
#16. Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.
Paul Leautaud
#17. I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.
Fernando Botero
#19. Oh, my God. I've just told you how old I am. Nobody knows how old I am. I'm going to have to kill you now.
Rita Rudner
#21. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Brad Herzog
#22. How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?" Celia asks after a while.
"Very carefully," Marco answers.
Erin Morgenstern
#23. The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
Eric Liu
#24. I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
Aubrey De Grey
#25. 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
#26. Philip looked incredulously at the tiny bundle in Johnny's arms. He reached out a hand tentatively, and lifted a corner of the blanket. He saw a wrinkled pink face, an open toothless mouth and a little bald head - a miniature of an aging monk.
Ken Follett
#27. 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
#28. Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.
Maija Haavisto
#29. Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Franz Grillparzer
#30. Once when he was still young, I saw a bit of his scalp showing through his hair and I was afraid. But it was just a cowlick. Now sometimes it shows through for real, but I feel only tenderness.
Jenny Offill
#31. 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
#33. I'm much younger than I look, I promise." Nora's smile broadened. "I'm aging horribly.
Tiffany Reisz
#35. Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
Meryl Streep
#36. 90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?
Sara Gruen
#37. 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
#38. 'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
Erin McKean
#39. Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering ... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#40. Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
Jack Valenti
#42. If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.
Carew Papritz
#43. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.
Andrea Lochen
#44. Spend time to love yourself and the aging process involved. Your growth vintage is priceless.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#45. The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.
A.J. Darkholme
#46. 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
#47. My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."
Christiane Northrup
#48. We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
Elizabeth Janeway
#49. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. This one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing
Michael Chabon
#53. I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.
Karen Lewis
#54. I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
Sam Lipsyte
#55. Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.
Deepak Chopra
#57. We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough
Noah Hawley
#58. ...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.
Jennifer Egan
#59. What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
Caryl Rivers
#60. Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
#61. 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
#62. More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.
Sherman Alexie
#63. Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.
Pete Egoscue
#64. Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.
John Crowley
#65. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)
Nicole Krauss
#66. ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Gore Vidal
#67. You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.
Cynthia Lewis
#68. Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.
Michael Greger
#70. We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire.
Sherrod Brown
#71. And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already
and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing ... I'd rather be alone.
Zadie Smith
#72. There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Celine Dion
#73. But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsistent, and paradoxical as our own lives are?
Molly Peacock
#74. At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
Jean Rhys
#75. We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?
Ashton Applewhite
#76. And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?
Jim Butcher
#77. The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.
Alan Tudyk
#78. For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.
Willow Bay
#79. Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.
William S. Burroughs
#80. The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
Elizabeth Berg
#81. Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears
Eleanor Brownn
#83. I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?
Sarah Jessica Parker
#84. The idea behind makeup is to enhance whatever color or contours you have in your face. I'm a big believer in that. And don't use to much powder; powder is really aging. I've made that mistake myself.
Julianne Moore
#85. The smell by now was indescribable, a compound of burnt aging automobile stinks and the natural odors of death and blood - sweet as garbage, acrid as gasoline, the smell of a thousand rubber tires rolled in batshit and then set on fire.
Michael Chabon
#86. The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.
Clint Eastwood
#87. I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
Tom Robbins
#88. From an evolutionary perspective, exercise tricks the brain into trying to maintain itself for survival despite the hormonal cues that it is aging.
John J. Ratey
#89. Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#90. Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fonda
#91. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Peggi Speers
#92. The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.
Marge Piercy
#93. We settled in a booth at Bishop's 4th Street Diner, an aging silver zeppelin on the rotary outside the naval base, grungy and stuffed with Betty Boop tchotchkes in the windows. The waitress greeted Abbass familiarly and promptly took her order: a hamburger, rare, and fries.
Marilyn Johnson
#94. Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.
Robert Farrar Capon
#95. During a recent interview, President Obama revealed that his favorite movie this year was 'Boyhood.' It makes sense. If there's one thing Obama can identify with, it's aging several years over the course of a couple of hours.
Jimmy Fallon
#96. Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind,
so that seeing the future without aging alongside it was at least theoretically, possible.
Mitch Albom
#97. With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.
Peter Hoeg
#98. I don't see my skin aging. I see my skin looking as good, or better, than it did ten years ago ... and that makes me smile.
Cindy Crawford
#99. The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.
Ilse Aichinger
#100. I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.
Joel Plaskett
