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Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
When you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.
It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
Tired, not just of living, but of existing.
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
the goal is to get old without getting feeble.
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
I'm not getting old. I'm getting better.
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.
-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
Old age is not just for grown up's
Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another - it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...
Senescence begins
And middle-age ends
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends
What degradation lay in being young.
People start aging from early, very early, on. Gradually it spreads over their entire body like a stain that cannot be wiped away.
No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!'
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it
Nothing ages like laziness.
When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!
Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.
You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.
It's not easy, getting old, feeling one's relevance slip away.
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.
We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful.
Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.
Growing old is a 'losing' game. We lose hair, friends, memories, and also simple skills.
Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.
When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Age-- Carol Grace
By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.
Aging is for people who don't know any better.
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.
though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.
Biological age is the key component of the aging process.
You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.
Dr. Henry Lodge, coauthor of Younger Next Year, makes the point sharply. "It turns out," he says, "that 70% of American aging is not real aging. It's just decay. It's rot from the stuff that we do.
Its the body grows older ...
The Mind grows wiser ... stronger ...
the author of Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering About the Body's Journey Through Life.
I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.
Ageing is a privilege not a predicament
Long life wore away everything that was not essential.
Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze.
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
I am old now. So old. My sight fades, my muscles are weak, my piss dribbles, my bones ache, and I sit in the sun and fall asleep to wake tired.
Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when the line moves you one step closer to the window.
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
The signs of psychic draining - we call aging.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
Age has a way of exagerrating the physical traits of those who live to feel its strains; the round tend to grow rounder, and the slim tend to waste away.
The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.
Age- the price we all must pay.
It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.
I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.
Don't get old, if you can avoid it.
Aging is not kind to anyone.
Old age is the harbor of all ills.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
We don't just grow old. We become old when we stop growing.
The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging.
You have to embrace getting older
some people just can't take getting older, even though there's nothing more certain in life than dying itself
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.
All diseases run into one, old age.
To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.
Q: You told us a moment ago they were dying off pretty fast? A: Yes, sir, the old people are. Q: Is there any special cause for that? A: Nothing; there is no new disease; I don't see anything other than the want of hope.
Life wears down the edges of the mind.