Aging Challenges Quotes

Getting old is not for sissies.

Old age ain't for sissies

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.

Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.

It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.

When you are 25, everything comes easy to you. When you get past 35, every training session is a sacrifice. I can't see myself doing that.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.

What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.