There's something deeply poetic about how different cultures capture the inevitability of aging. The English phrase 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks' comes to mind, though it's more about stubbornness than time's passage. A closer equivalent might be 'Time and tide wait for no man' – that medieval proverb has always struck me as beautifully melancholic, like watching autumn leaves fall in 'The Lord of the Rings'.
Interestingly, Shakespeare's 'sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything' from 'As You Like It' digs even deeper into the physical decay aspect. Contemporary media often uses visual metaphors instead, like the crumbling parchment in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' when the knight chooses mortality. These layered expressions make me appreciate how universal yet uniquely articulated our dread of aging remains across languages.