Aging Effects Quotes

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

… the silent artillery of time

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

'This Is England 2015.' That would be ace. We could have prosthetics to make us look really old.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

Old age is second childhood.

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.

That old bald cheater, Time.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Sometimes, I think to myself, 'Damn, I don't speak as well as I used to.'

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Our long, flexible lumbar spines are great in many ways - they help us to run efficiently, for instance. But they have their drawbacks. The lumbar vertebrae are under great strain, and as we age, the ligaments that hold the pulpy centres of the intervertebral discs in place dry out.

Nobody escapes age and gravity.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.