Decreased Mobility Quotes

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

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

When I hit 35, there were things I couldn't do which I'd done previously, and they had been completely natural to me.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

As you get older, your body doesn't hold up as much.

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 stands not far from death.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

I do not want to be 36 years old and can hardly walk.