Aging Quotes - Page 2

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

Time erodes us all.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman’s ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman’s usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

Everyday is one less day.

a life can change in a tenth of
a second.
or sometimes it can take
70
years.

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.