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'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Anytime you really take a close look at people who are dealing with the aging process, you're going to have a complicated reaction to what you're seeing and feeling. If you're in the middle of it, those emotions are going to be quadrupled. It's immediate, it's relatable, so it's good human drama.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

The body doesn't recover like it does when you're younger.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it's a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.