Top 55 Ageing Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ageing Quotes from famous people such as Kate Garraway, Lesley Sharp, Naomie Harris, Sue Perkins, Aubrey de Grey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You've got to get your head right about ageing. Taking

You’ve got to get your head right about ageing. Taking care of diet and exercise and facing your fears about growing older will lead you into a happier place emotionally and mentally. You feel like you have a choice.
Kate Garraway
I don’t dislike anything, but I am definitely finding the ageing process ‘interesting’ and not wholly comfortable.
Lesley Sharp
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
The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can’t see how bad things are getting.
Sue Perkins
There’s nothing wrong with making the best of one’s declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we’re seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
Aubrey de Grey
People always tell me that redheads go silver. Long, silver-grey hair would be my ideal way of ageing.
Mick Hucknall
Europe’s demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
S. Jay Olshansky
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.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
My mental analogy for TalkTalk is an ageing Ford Cortina going flat out in the fast lane of the M4 in the pouring rain. We are always hammering along faster than anybody thinks is sensible, with things not quite working, but huge enthusiasm.
Dido Harding
I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.
Paul McGann
You can’t worry about ageing because that’s the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don’t like, and then you’re finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.
China Machado
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
Jennifer Grey
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We’re living longer and expecting more from life; the success of ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,’ and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we’re up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.
Deborah Moggach
The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
S. Jay Olshansky
I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you’re young, you should enjoy the fact your skin is free from lines and wrinkles rather than overloading it with products.
Louise Nurding
We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset.
Alexander De Croo
Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population.
Carrie Lam
In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that’s what’s interesting.
Kim Cattrall
Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
Julie Bishop
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.
Michael Sheen
There’s no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don’t meet people who want to get Alzheimer’s 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
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.
Nick Bostrom
Fighting the ageing process just doesn’t work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
Juliette Binoche
It’s sad that so many people feel they need to alter their image. I think there is something really beautiful about ageing naturally.
Tuppence Middleton
Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old isn’t that great. I’ve got friends much older than me and much younger, and I love that. It means you get to teach as well as learn.
Stella McCartney
I feel like everyone could do with starting wearing SPF at least a decade earlier than they do, just for ageing.
Ellie Taylor
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
Elizabeth Blackburn
As far as I’m concerned, ageing is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.
Aubrey de Grey
Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I’m getting old.
George M. Church
Ageing doesn’t mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn’t mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.
Twiggy
Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
Cate Blanchett
Governments can’t credibly claim to be concerned about stagnant growth and ageing workforces unless they are actively seeking to empower women economically. One way they can speed up progress towards gender-equal economic opportunity is to change laws that are holding women back.
Arancha Gonzalez
Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with an ageing and ever-increasing population, with growing pressure on resources, and with rising global temperatures. The risks and dangers need to be assessed and then confronted.
Martin Rees
I love that ageing rocker look, dressed in black and looking like you slept in your make-up.
Claudia Winkleman
I didn’t want to get married to somebody just because I was ageing and wanted a child.
Neena Gupta
Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it’s something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that’s what I try and do.
Mick Hucknall
For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
Carl Jung
My cheeks have got slimmer as I’ve got older and I have to be careful not to lose too much weight because I get hollows underneath my cheekbones, which is ageing.
Davina McCall
Ageing’s a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it’s okay. I’ve had a good time living, so I’m gonna have a good time dying.
Nick Nolte
After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That’s complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
Sam Rockwell
Ageing is a blessing, and I feel every inch of 46.
Susanna Reid
Ageing is one of those battles you’re not going to win. I’ll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don’t think I’ll do cosmetic surgery because I’m a wimp.
Mariella Frostrup
I’m really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it’s a bad thing to get old.
Sophia Myles
As digitalisation and the ageing population trends advance, international mobility and the development of employable skills are crucial to balance demographic gaps and surpluses as well as the deficit of skills across the world.
Alain Dehaze
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.
Geoff Mulgan
There’s a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population – we aren’t dying of other things, so we’re dying of cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.
David Bowie
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.
Mark Barrowcliffe
I don’t like ageing, I don’t like being older, time is going too fast, and life is like a train running at high speed. I have a real problem with it.
Phillip Schofield
Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.
Kim Cattrall
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn’t bother me.
Claudia Schiffer
Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn’t work on ageing, I’d want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets – that’s so powerful.
Cynthia Kenyon
I want all women – teens, young women, older women, pregnant women, ageing women – to love and accept themselves.
Sameera Reddy
Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some, like my mother, have the curiosity of a child at the age of 94.
Suhasini Mulay