Ageing Quotes

130 quotes by 108 authors

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds. — Vera Farmiga
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. — Thomas Hardy
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes… — Naomie Harris
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age. — Jenny McCarthy
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. — Pope Paul VI
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria… — Michael Sheen
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. — Mark Twain
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. — Virginia Woolf
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most… — Geoff Mulgan
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What… — Maya Angelou
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. — Robert Frost
As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will… — Banana Yoshimoto
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. — Chili Davis
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. — Doug Larson
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it. — Nick Bostrom
The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected. — Cynthia Kenyon

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