Aging Impact Quotes

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.

Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not my life because I'm putting something good into the world or I'm well-respected in my field, but my life as a human being on this planet for a limited amount of time.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50.

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.