Ageing Quotes

Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. (Aubrey de Grey)
Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist. View quote
Nora Ephron
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it. View quote
Elizabeth Blackburn
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. View quote
Thandie Newton
The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished? View quote
Eric Roth
The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation. View quote
Julie Bishop
Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time. View quote
Julie Bishop
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. (Naomie Harris)
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. View quote
Ted Dexter
Dignity, girls! Ageing with dignity – that's the thing. View quote
Tracey Ullman
[the Cubist painters who].. continued to paint objects motionless, frozen, and all the static aspects of Nature; they worship the traditionalism of w:Poussin, of w:Ingres, of Corot, ageing and petrifying their art with an obstinate attachment to the past, which to our eyes remains totally incomprehensible. View quote
Umberto Boccioni
I was so tired of seeing these stupid, cheerful books about ageing. One of them even has this whole thing in it about how you are going to have the greatest sex of your life in your sixties and seventies. Which is just garbage.I thought about it and realised that there was one circumstance that you could have the best sex of your life in your sixties and seventies. That would be if you had never had sex until you were 60 or 70. View quote
Nora Ephron
On the positive side, at least we know now what to stock up with in case of a nuclear war. Also filmstars might consider injecting liquidized McD into their faces to halt the ageing process. View quote
Maneka Gandhi
If I could fight anyone it would be Jack Johnson - he was so ahead of his time. I would like to have the opportunity to fight Tyson too and I'm sure it will arise if he can face me. I would not like to have fought Muhammed Ali as I have too much respect for him on a personal and professional level. Larry Holmes, Ali's ex-sparring partner, fought Muhammed Ali and hated himself after giving him an unnecessary beating after winning. The only reason he won was because of Ali's ageing boxing skills. View quote
Lennox Lewis
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. View quote
Virginia Woolf
In this winter night, long and ample for bitter memories, many a widow who lost her husband in the war and is now left alone will press her palms to her ageing face; and in the nocturnal darkness the burning tears, as bitter as wormwood, will scorch her fingers. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. View quote
Rowan Williams
Cheating ageing by a low-calorie diet, uploading one's mind into a super-computer, migrating into outer space ... Longing for everlasting life, humans show that they remain the death-defined animal. (John N. Gray)
Ageing is an extraordinary process... If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn't exist ... I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been. View quote
David Bowie
Ageing is a privilege not a predicament. View quote
Martin Firrell
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes. View quote
Mark Barrowcliffe
As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance. View quote
Aubrey de Grey