Getting Older Life Quotes

#1. You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift.

Meryl Streep

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

Ian Anderson

#3. I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Matt Barr

#4. It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.

Jill Davis

#5. I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Jon Hamm

#6. The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Julia Roberts

#7. some people just can't take getting older, even though there's nothing more certain in life than dying itself

Lisa Ballantyne

#8. 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.

Anthony Marra

#9. We are getting older fatter and balder. Each day brings us one step closer to death. Other than that, life's a ding-a-derry.

M. Kushner

#10. He's getting older," Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?

Suzanne Brockmann

#11. Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other
than just getting older.

Audrey Niffenegger

#12. When you get to a certain age you find that other people's opinions don't really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.

Noel Gallagher

#13. The cool thing about getting older, is that you have so much to look back on. If you take the time to reflect on your life journey to where you are now, you will be amazed at how many times "fate" caused you to make great decisions that lead you to where you are now.

Beth Ramsay

#14. Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#15. I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

Edmund Phelps

#16. Because the universal truth of getting older is obvious: IF YOU ARE A LOSER AT FORTY YOU WILL BE A LOSER FOR LIFE.

Mike Gayle

#17. I guess that's the thing about getting older. You realize your differences can be good things. Not just bad ones.

Rebecca Serle

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

Morton Shaevitz

#19. The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

Monica Ali

#20. Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Groucho Marx

#21. So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

John Mayer

#22. I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

Colbie Caillat

#23. I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

Andy Griffith

#24. I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

Erica Jong

#25. In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time.

Amy Tan

#26. It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Erica Jong

#27. 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.

Rick Danko

#28. Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Chris Robinson

#29. 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.

Howie Mandel

#30. You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

Jean Thompson

#31. These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that happen in everyone's life. People do get married ... this is just a natural evolution. I wonder if we'll have 'Big Bang' babies in the season finale?

Kunal Nayyar

#32. I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#33. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

Oswald Chambers

#34. The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

Woody Allen

#35. Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too

Stevie Nicks

#36. I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

George Saunders

#37. Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

Frederick Lenz

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

Gary Lutz

#39. The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a different quality of life. New York is great when you're in your early 20s and you're running around and it's really fun, but it's a place for me to get things done.

Erin Wasson

#40. Getting older is inevitable--being old is a choice.

Cheryl L. Ilov

#41. Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.

Roger Corman

#42. T.J. seemed older than seventeen. Reserved almost. Maybe facing serious health problems eliminated some of the immature behavior that presented itself when you had nothing more to worry about than getting your driver's license, cutting class, or breaking curfew.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#43. I don't mind getting older; it's a privilege denied to so many!

Chris Geiger

#44. You will be turning thirty soon, Mr. Kawana, which means that, from now on, you will gradually enter that twilight portion of life - you will be getting older.

Haruki Murakami

#45. Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Martha Beck

#46. 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.

Rosemarie DeWitt

#47. I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

Olivia Munn

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

Gabrielle Zevin

#49. He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.

Colin Cotterill

#50. I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

Alexis Bledel