Best 47 quotes in «getting old quotes» category

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

Where I grew up, we spent a lot of time outside. I moved to Paris when I was 19, and from then on, it was exactly the opposite. On the weekend, you go to the galleries, the museums, the movies. And I thought, "I'm not going to be like all of these friends I've had who are now at this certain stage in their lives, and they are all unhappy with themselves because they never get out in the fresh air or the sun, and they get so disconnected from their bodies that they have to just layer and layer and layer like onions. I am not getting old like that.

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

Having buck teeth in junior high,” she rounded up unsteadily, “must be ideal preparation for getting old. For pretty people, aging is a dumb shock. It’s like, what’s going on? Why doesn’t anyone smile at me at checkout anymore? But it won’t be a shock for me. It’ll be, oh that. That again. Teeth.

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

He wanted to spend the rest of his life building Nora's Paris out of sugar cubes, brick by brick. He wanted a one-way ticket to 1920. He thought about Nora's idea of time travel. What a horrible kind of travel, that took you only forward into the terrifying future, constantly farther from whatever had once made you happy. Only maybe that wasn't what she'd meant. Maybe she meant the older you got, the more decades you had at your disposal to revisit with your eyes closed.

I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, "No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

getting old means getting lucky sometimes means sometimes you learn & along with other sweeter acquisitions you learn that nine tenths of what goes down is bullshit that there's just no way to be with people & not smear yr tongue with bullshit lies that it doesn't help to fuck with people & anyway once you know how it's no fun any more

HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION I am born as the sun, But then turn into the moon, As my blonde hairs turn Grayish-white and fall To the ground, Only to be buried again, Then to be born again, Into a thousand suns And a thousand Moons. Suzy Kassem

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.

[she felt] sorry for herself, for getting older, for being mortal, for all the music she still wanted to hear, the books she intended to read, the places she had meant to visit, the things she had promised herself she'd learn one day [...] and probably never would because time was beginning to feel like a fast express train that no longer stopped at all the stations.

I got this month's delivery bill today - you're practically living off pastries!" "The pastries are easier on my teeth," Grandpa called after him with a smile. "That wouldn't be an issue if you would get new teeth!" John's voice carried in from the kitchen. Grandpa pretended not to hear him. His memory might have gone to shit, but there were a few things about being old that he really enjoyed.

The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

The drink you spilt all over me 'Lover's Spit' left on repeat My mom and dad let me stay home It drives you crazy, getting old

There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I’m startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head.

Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear." Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. "I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little tumble one night and almost harpooned the cat." This was very much the Anna she remembered: warm and self-mocking and complete present. And somehow that made it even harder to accept how frail she'd become since Mary Ann's last visit.

You used to get it in your fishnets Now you only get it in your nightdress Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness... ...Remeber when the boys were all electric?

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.

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

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

Getting old is not for sissies.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

I'm just getting older and better.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

It's weird how people hate getting older.

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.