Psychological Aging Quotes

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

How I imagined myself being 50 is not how I am feeling now. You think you'll be different, but I still feel like I am about 12 years old - mentally, not physically.

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Our thoughts determine our age.

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.