Aging Quote by Susan Sontag

“The elderly were formerly young before being utterly overtaken by years. It is only orderly that they arrive first at our common destination of…

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of us -…

— Marcel Proust

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it…

— Andre Maurois

“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin…

— Lai Wen

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end…

— Marcel Proust

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

“Life does not cease when you are old, it only suffers a rich change. You go on loving, only your love, instead of a…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process…

— Cindy McDonald

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky