Ageing Gracefully Quotes

“At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Lines can be the etchings of your biggest smiles, the frowns you learned from, the proof that you change and grow.”
― Eleanor Gordon-Smith

“We are at that age where men get sexier, and women get Botox.”
― Aggie Blum Thompson, I Don't Forgive You

“Focus on the parts of yourself that will not diminish with time – humour and wisdom are not like collagen. You will make more of them as you age.”
― Eleanor Gordon-Smith

“Age is not all decay: it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”
― George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie

“Alluringly maturing is easier said than done.”
― Lana M. Rochel, Kill Your Darlings: Long Poem

“We've got to educate those about to retire. Don't retire, work. Retirement means death. If the mindset is that 'I'll reach retirement age at 62, I'm old, I can't work anymore, now is the time I enjoy life, I think you're making the biggest mistake of your life. We should die actively, meaning we should be active till death.
-on rethinking ageing”
― LKY on LIFE

“At what age , he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful solution, but then ageing is not a graceful bussines.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“Most people age way earlier than necessary. By thirty, many are old in themselves. By forty, most have lost the spark of life. By fifty, they are already senior. All of this is entirely preventable and, to a large extent, also reversible. Ageing happens at all levels of our being, but the most obvious is the body. Use it or lose it. Of course, you will be fighting a losing battle if you only exercise your body and not your mind and spirit. When you use them all, they will gladly and efficiently work together. Although we cannot completely stop the march of time on our use-by-stamped bodies, we can have the blessings of a well-functioning and alive body, an active and bright mind, and a loving and expressive soul.”
― Donna Goddard, Touched by Love

“In Cadaques, time is suspended in such a way that days spent here are not counted in the ageing process.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Sex Surrealism Dali & Me

“There is only one thing on my bucket list-old age.”
― George S. Midla "From Love to War"

“I was in the prime of my time as the maiden, the magic of the middle – not yet the mother and far from the crone. My supple, small breasts were not yet deflated from years of nursing sweet babies. My strong, smooth stomach hadn’t expanded in the mysterious, magical way it would, to grow another human. My skin was yet to be speckled in white spots, ravaged by too many summers. As the years passed, my looks would fade, the lines around my eyes would grow deeper, and I would become a different kind of beautiful.”
― Dana Da Silva, The Shift: A Memoir