Quotes about Aging

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.

You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

Gray hair is a blessing - ask any bald man.

Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end.