But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

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Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath,...

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It may be strange—yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding,...

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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

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... the girls who came at dawn To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to be a man...

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. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown! These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are nothing!...

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We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence...

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What we have come to consider as 'normal' illnesses of aging are really not normal. In fact, these findings indicate that the vast majority, perhaps 80 to 90%of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented, at least until very old age, simply by adopting a plant-based diet.

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Of Heaven of Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears,...

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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.

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When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day,...

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If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game—age 37, aging alternative icon—I'd be taking out ads.

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Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

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I will not argue the matter: Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen; the days and hours of...

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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

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The old forget the grief, Hack of the cough, the hanging albatross, Cast back the bone of youth....

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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

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Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional

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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

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So at a knock I emptied my cage To hide in the world And alter with age.

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I can sit up half the night With some friend that has the wit...

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball

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For she has outlived the dates in the back of Fords, she has outlived the penises of her teens to come here, to the married harbor.

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Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

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There is grey in your hair. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath...

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Older women are like aging strudels-the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

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Come, let me sing into your ear; Those dancing days are gone,...

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Where has it gone, the lifetime? Search me. What's left is drear....

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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being.

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