Aging with Dignity Quotes

My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

You don't feel old when you get old.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I wear my age with pride.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.