Aging Quotes · Page 51

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

— Keanu Reeves

“You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.”

— Tyler Perry

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

— Dennis Price

“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…

— Lemmy Kilmister

People are always saying to me how mature I am, and I don't really see it personally.

— Jude Bellingham

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

— Paul H. Dunn

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

— George Burns

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

— Anonymous

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young." "Yes! It's like the last day…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can’t remember what you did minutes ago, but…

— Vicki Covington

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

In many ways, the physical dimension of life becomes less important as the soul enlarges. In my late twenties, I was astonished…

— Wendy Lustbader

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we…

— Virginia Graham

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;…

— George Eliot

I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't…

— Elle Macpherson

“[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity…

— Donald Hall

“I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy.…

— Chila Woychik

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

— Joshua L. Liebman

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

— Jeanne Calment

“That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.”

— David Burr Gerrard

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

— Anonymous

Maturity on younger people is a sad sign of someone who was forced to grow up too fast.

— Anonymous

I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for…

— Brigitte Bardot

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

— Bill Cosby

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed…

— Martha Beck

“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”

— Virginia Woolf

“Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't see my skin aging. I see my skin looking as good, or better, than it did ten years ago...and that…

— Cindy Crawford

“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your…

— Kevin Barry

Both of my grandmothers are aging well, and my mom is, too. I've got some good genes.

— Maya Moore

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

— Richard Armour

“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”

— John Scalzi

“New year is another opportunity of seeing life with little more caring, compassion, maturity and beauty.”

— Amit Ray

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.

— Ron Rosedale

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

— Andrew Niccol

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

— Tobias Wolff

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

— Arthur Ashe

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of…

— Nicolas Chamfort