Quotes about Aging

I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.

The terrible threat against life, he said in his book God Is Not Yet Dead, is not death, nor pain, nor any variation on the disasters that we so obsessively try to protect ourselves against with our social systems and personal stratagems. The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years."

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Worry leads to gray hair

Wrinkles happen to human beings.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.