Graceful 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.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

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

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses than tore at my very heart.

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

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.

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

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

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

No man loves life like him that's growing old.