Body Deterioration Quotes

I've got an old body.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but there’s something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.

The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there anymore.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population.

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that.

One thing we've learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.