Aging Quotes Quotes

“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.”
― lauren klarfeld

“Celebrate your birthday with the greatest joy for the priceless gift of life, be filled with joy that brings renewed strength.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Like the night before, I found her naked and sitting on the edge of her bed. Unaware I was there, she continued to massage her legs, their blue-green veins twisting beneath her skin. I wasn't as afraid seeing her body this second night. In the folds and creases, I saw her history. Her skin was the diary of her soul. All the springs she had watched the flowers bloom. The summers she had stood before the moon and kissed its face. The autumns she had grown wiser. The winters that had frozen the initials of her name. Each wrinkle was a record of this and of every hour, minute, and second she had lived. All her secrets were written in her skin. The things she had asked God for. The things she had cursed the devil about. In such age before me, I saw only beauty.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

“Allow a woman her hate especially if a glimpse at the mirror screams the reality that we all see.”
― Ayura Ayira, NUCLEAR HARLOT

“Aging is the knowledge and maturity is the wisdom”
― J. Tisa

“Aging is the divine and maturity is the blessing”
― J. Nedumaan

“It seems the older I get, the less I know.”
― Betty Jane Wylie, Endings: A Book For Almost Everyone

“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a fallibility akin to illness, something that left a person weak and in some way less than themselves. But I never used to think of my grandmother that way. Her hands with veins running across them like vines, the lines that criss-crossed her forehead, the full softness of her belly, the solidity of her arthritic shoulders, and those ancient, timeless eyes - to me these things spoke not of fallibility but of permanence. Of implacable strength, like an old gnarly tree that had been battered by wind and weather, but remained stubbornly set into the soil.”
― Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square

“As we age, we become more aware of the rarity and exquisiteness of beauty, and come to admire the flowers blooming amongst rubble. With each advancing decade, nature’s beauty and the magnificence of life increasingly amazes me. Maturation allows a person to appreciate the springtime frolic of youth and to inventory the knowledge garnered from a rigorous summer reflecting upon adulthood’s long pull. Ageing allows people to free themselves from the strife and strivings of their younger self. Reflective contemplation nurtures the cherished milk of wisdom. I shall rejoice in the commonplace acts of being. Today is an apt time to embrace learning at all stages of life. It is also an apt time to commence exercising the principles of good husbandry by beginning to making preparation for the inevitable freeze of winter.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Middle age is like summer break--it's over too soon.”
― Michael Ray Smith

“DT, HANNAH
I must admit that I mind this relentless defoliation (or deforestation) process. As though to grow old does not mean, as Goethe said, ‘gradual withdrawal from appearance’-which I do not mind-but the gradual (or rather sudden) transformation of a world with familiar faces (no matter, foe or friend) into a kind of desert, populated by strange faces. In other works, it is not me who withdraws but the world that dissolves-an altogether different proposition.”
Hannah Arendt in a letter to Mary McCarthy on growing old”
― Hannah Arendt

“You ever see your reflection in a mirror and suddenly see all the little changes that have taken place since you were a teenager? It's depressing.”
― Noah Van Sciver, Saint Cole

“Antagligen känns minnet av lidande aldrig lika illa som lidandet i stunden, även om det faktiskt var mycket värre- vi kan inte minnas hur mycket värre det var, eftersom minnet är svagare än upplevelsen. Kanske är det därför folk i medelåldern alltid tror att deras tankar och känslor är viktigare än yngre människors, för att det bara vagt kan minnas känslorna från sin ungdom medan de låter allt de upplever nu dominera deras perspektiv på livet.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I know what I look like. I have no choice (....) What am I going to do about it? Stop aging? Disappear?”
― Sarah Jessica Parker

“MATURITY AND AGING ARE NOT THE SAME, MATURITY IS FOR THE SOUL AND AGING IS FOR THE FLESH”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The bottom line is fear makes us less resilient; it makes us more susceptible and more easily compromised.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Alternatively,perhaps you just aren't ready to embrace the 'third wave' just yet.A word of warning though, nobody wants to be carrying on pretending to be young too far past their sell-by date.”
― Joseph Piercy, Are You Turning Into Your Dad?

“I now need eight to ten hours (and still don’t feel completely refreshed). When I was younger I survived on four to six hours.”
― J.Allen Hobson

“So what happens when proovs get old?" he asks, as if the subject is close to his heart. "They age gracefully," Lanaya says with a smile. "That's the best we can do.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“I pay tribute to that little girl who is constantly told by society that she is not beautiful. For the older woman who hides behind her mask and colors her gray hair. And to the senior woman who feels that her wrinkles are a negative reminder of growing older.

Know that you are all beautiful, just the way you are. Let the radiance you were born with shine through.”
― Alyscia Cunningham

“I dream of hard things yet to be done.”
― Brian S Woods, THE CODEX BELLUM: Iron Wrapped In Cotton

“Don’t be anxious to move along with your wrinkles. They just indicate that you’ve reached the next level.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“You don’t understand this when you’re younger but at some point, you cease doing things, cease creating new memories,” he thought aloud. “You are stuck in a rocking chair. And all you have are your memories. Those beautiful droplets of color you’ve managed to steal from the rainbow. And you go back to them over and over and over, like a Catholic praying the rosary. You dig in deep, sifting through decades, years, seasons, weeks, hours, and seconds of your life, trying to figure out what it all meant. I wanted to come back to you. I wanted to see you in color, to grasp my own little rainbow.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, Vanishing Bodies: An Epic Science Fiction Romance

“The ghosts from my past float behind my eyes and haunt me in my dreams.”
― Carolyn Watson-Dubisch, After The Robots Died, Issue #2, The Eye in the Sand

“MEMORIES

All memories of days gone by
can only be remembered in the twilight
of evening’s calm warmth

All memories remembered in the full light of day
unsettles the mind and frustrates the spirit

All memories are tides
and fluid mists gliding
through the caverns and temples of our mind

All memories have no meaning
unless woven into our soft sweet hearts’
forgiveness and desire for love’s wholeness
and release”
― Ramon William Ravenswood

“I'm not getting older, I'm becoming an expert.”
― Jennifer Chernicky

“Apart aging, certain things will not change and certain things will not be the same, love and sex.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“With his total cholesterol over250 and his weight not far behind, there were no more Philly cheesesteaks, fries, and a large soda sitting in his car with one of the guys. Now it was turkey lasagna at home alone. He wondered if a longer life was worth living if you couldn't eat whatever the hell you wanted to eat.”
― Lisa Unger, Fragile

“It seemed Kaida was a bit too anxious about her mother's estate, all of it, to be exact. It worried Gail.
In a lucid moment, considering that Christmas was again approaching, Gail cleverly devised a quit claim deed giving her property to herself, Elsie, and Melanie with Kaida inheriting her mother’s share at her death. This would repair the damages done by her will. She filed this quit claim deed in a cabinet, meaning to ask an attorney about it with her potential bequests and concerns, but it slipped her mind. Instead, she shopped for gloves and slippers and bought other novelties that Christmas. She forgot to bring the deed to light.”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“A child that's outgrown their school shoes again reminds us that life is fluid, a river - moving and shapeshifting past obstacles but never stopping.”
― Jeff Baron, Just South of Faithful