Quotes about Aging
The most important thing I have learned in life was that being a teenager wasn`t forever.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
Death is nothing. I`m not afraid of nothing. But time passing is something different. I`m terrified of time passing. I tremble at the thought of my little girl growing up. I can`t face my son growing stronger than me and helping me up the stairs. I quake at the prospect of looking at my adult children`s faces with eyesight worse than I have now.
Maturity (...) is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow; it is matter for thanks, if we have left our work done behind us.
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man`s gift and that man`s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things.