aging Quotes

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on.

I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.