Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing…

— Robert Webb

I don't dislike anything, but I am definitely finding the ageing process 'interesting' and not wholly comfortable.

— Lesley Sharp

Everyone is going through this ageing process. Whether in their minds or they are discussing it with their friends, they all want to look…

— Neelam Kothari

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

— Demi Moore

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

— Sam Rockwell

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible…

— Michael Sheen

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing…

— Nick Bostrom

Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs…

— John Mortimer

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in…

— Caroline Myss

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

— Aubrey de Grey

“Ageing must be like wearing a heavy, itchy suit.”

— Tom Cardamone

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's…

— Jeanne Moreau

“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I…

— Billy Collins