Quotes about Aging

Getting older is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better.

“ Getting older is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better. “

-A. J. Jacobs-

Getting older is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better.

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Old age is life's parody.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent: we are no longer necessary.

The truth is that, from a biological point of view, aging is a disaster.