#aging

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #aging




Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.


John Crowley


#age

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to diem it's also the positive that you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.


Mitch Albom


#dying #perspective #positive-thinking #age

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.


Robert A. Heinlein


#age

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


Phyllis Diller


#getting-old #middle-age-spread #wearing-out #age

It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they were--their fragility was irrefutable, medically proven--and yet Emily detested the inevitable rundown of accidents and tragedies, the more fortunate clucking their tongues and counting their blessings, all the while knowing it was just a matter of time. She didn't need to be reminded that she was a single misstep from disaster, especially here, without Henry, surrounded by the survivors of an earlier life.


Stewart O'Nan


#aging #vulnerability #age

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.


John Zimmerman


#believe #bulls #care #eye #health

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.


Diana Athill


#life #sex #somewhere-towards-the-end #women #age

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)


Victoria Moran


#aging-well #growing-older #life #living-longer #age

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.


Alain de Botton


#life #resilience #truth #age

Lines don’t make beautiful women less beautiful


Isabel Wolff


#women #age