accepting aging Quotes

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

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.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

You have to embrace getting older.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.