Best 164 quotes in «getting older quotes» category

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living... and with each one, he thinks he feels patterns on his cortex going dark, settling to sleep forever, parts of whoever he's been losing all definition, reverting to dumb chemistry...

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older,’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God love more' who end their life early; i can see life and the ability of age as an tremendous gift from God. When i see my 'almost to 70 years old' parents make me think, if I 70 look like and act like them i am not worried about getting older (which i never) because they has set of pleasant example of life at that age. (Ejump,2016)

In the fifties... when they had their summer parties - there were always different colored lanterns on the lawn... and I get the funniest chill. In the end the bright colors always go out of life, have you noticed that? In the end, things always look gray, like a dress that's been washed too many times.

Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.

There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles.

One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through. "They're not gray," Mom barks at me as she opens her door. "They're strands of glittery goodness.

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

I guess I'm getting older. I hate to say it, but I guess I am.