Aging Quotes - Page 37

• The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

  Coco Chanel

  Simple, Age, Problem

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• There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

  Joan Rivers

  Depressing, Attention, Rotten

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

  Peg Bracken

  Years, Important, Remember

  Peg Bracken (1996). “On Getting Old for the First Time”, Bookpartners

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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• The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Strange, Ends, Whole

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• Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eye, Mirrors, Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Heaven, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.20, Vintage

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• In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

  Marya Mannes

  Passion, Long, Dying

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• I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

  Nora Ephron

  Age, Want, Nonsense

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• I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

  Betty Friedan

  Differences, People, Age

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

  Barbara Walters

  Talking, People, Perfect

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• the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

  Gladys Taber

  Real, Moving, Steps

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.

  Jane Fonda

  Giving, Challenges, Needs

  "Jane Fonda on Men, Power and Plastic Surgery". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2007.

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• I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

  Glenda Jackson

  Age, Camels, Faces

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• Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Easy, Deals

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.95

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• I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Whose Body?”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Parent, Age

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.

  Storm Jameson

  Taken, Wine, Tables

  Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”

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• If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Friends, Children, Real

  Mary Heaton Vorse (2007). “The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There is no blacklist. In the first place, in the entertainment business, money talks, bullshit walks. So Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins won't be blacklisted because they are bankable stars. In the second place, if you are a woman, the only things you're going to be blacklisted for in Hollywood are body fat and aging.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stars, Bullshit, Hollywood

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• People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

  Sue Grafton

  Country, Passion, Exercise

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.92, Macmillan

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• What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

  Caryl Rivers

  Age, Done, Seems

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Dawn, Rapids, Dusk

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• I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Cousin, Mountain, Dying

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