There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.
We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.
If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.
It is always the season for the old to learn.
There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging. . . and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.
You're never too old to be young, and never too young to be old.
I pointed out that men, society looks at aging men and say they get more distinguished; some say they get more handsome, more authoritative, and so forth. I said it's unfair. It's the way it works. It's sadly not that was the when women age. Sadly.
The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay young forever or to stop aging. But it is possible by committing to show up for each others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.