Quotes about Aging
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.
— Deepak Chopra
Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.
— Wendell Berry
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
— William Hazlitt
Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.
— Paulo Coelho
We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
— Edith Wharton
Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.
— Edith Wharton
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger
— Albert Einstein
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
— Alexander Hamilton
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
— Gloria Steinem
What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.
— Gloria Steinem
We need to hold together all of the stages of life, and for some strange, wonderful reason, it all becomes quite "simple" as we approach our later years.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For another union, a deeper communion —T. S. ELIOT, "EAST COKER
— Fr. Richard Rohr