Top 100 Quotes About Getting Old
#1. Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you're getting old.
Jeanette Winterson
#2. You saying I'm getting old?" Eddie asked, grinning. "It happens to us all, in the end. If we're lucky.
Andy McDermott
#3. The woman who looks back at me from my bathroom mirror is sliding toward her mid-fifties. She'd better be careful- she's getting old.
I myself am about thirty. I've been thirty for about twenty-three years now.
Cheryl Peck
#4. You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
Enid Bagnold
#5. There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard ... obscure the beauty.
Sara Zarr
#6. You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.
Noel Gallagher
#7. I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.
Monica Bellucci
#9. Did you see her again in France?" I asked him."
"No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ..."
"Why?"
"She often told me she was frightened of getting old...
Patrick Modiano
#10. I scowled listening to my back cracking and popping.
Either i was getting old, Wade had fucked me out of alignment, or the stress of the past week had taken more of a toll than I had previously allowed myself to imagine.
Ethan Day
#11. I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, 'What's a Marvin Gaye?' and, I mean ... Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.
Charlie Puth
#12. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
L. Frank Baum
#13. I know I'm getting old because there will be times when I'm not even doing anything and I'll think, 'I need to go wipe my ass right now.'
Louis C.K.
#14. Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems to be even greater than our fear of dying. This
Fredrik Backman
#15. I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. Avery: Yeah right, very funny, when are you going to shoot me and dump my body at captree? This is Getting old.
H.M. Ward
#17. At 50 you now have realized
?Getting old isn't fair?
And that it's hard to make a comeback
?When you haven't gone anywhere
John Walter Bratton
#18. I'm getting old," I said again, and that was true. I had lived more than fifty years and most men were lucky to see forty. Yet all old age was bringing was the death of dreams.
Bernard Cornwell
#19. One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
Bette Davis
#20. I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
John Scalzi
#21. Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
Kate Beckinsale
#22. Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem
Mitch Albom
#23. It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?' ... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.
Cynthia Kenyon
#24. I hate getting old," Violet said. "I do, too. But the alternative is worse.
Joanna Bourne
#25. When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
Carine Roitfeld
#27. I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!'
Tracey Emin
#29. I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Alexander McQueen
#30. This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
Robert Capa
#31. Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.
Meat Loaf
#32. Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
M. Night Shyamalan
#33. We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.
Lloyd Jones
#34. I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
Charlie Bell
#35. I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life.
David Beckham
#36. I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.
George Carlin
#37. I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
Felix Dennis
#38. I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.
Charles Sheffield
#39. She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl.
Jostein Gaarder
#40. One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.
Maurice Sendak
#41. You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.
Bernie Mac
#42. It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.
Katherine Dunn
#43. There's no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn't help anyone and it's getting old.
Jennie Runk
#44. In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
Rowan Williams
#45. I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
Joanna Lumley
#46. The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.
Moby
#47. I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.
Michael K. Williams
#48. She is getting old, and he is getting old, right on schedule, and yet as time ruins them, they are not, strangely enough, married to each other.
Michael Chabon
#49. Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old Sometime
Spencer Johnson
#50. I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
Maurice Sendak
#51. There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old ... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
Eugene Delacroix
#52. It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings
#53. You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
Hy Gardner
#54. I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#55. The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
Steve Coogan
#56. You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns
#57. Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of # movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.
Tony Robbins
#58. Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.
Chick Corea
#59. Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when the line moves you one step closer to the window.
Wallace Stegner
#60. I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.
Jimmy Buffett
#61. The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#62. I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
Damien Hirst
#65. I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.
Stephen King
#66. You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
Jimmy Dean
#67. I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
Shirley Maclaine
#68. I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
Mike Wallace
#69. I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.
Norman Jewison
#70. Everything people do that doesn't work has to be somebody else's fault. Next time you know, geezers'll be suing the government for getting old and kids'll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.
Lionel Shriver
#71. Getting older is reality, but getting old does not have to be.
Carol Stanley
#72. You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.
Joan Rivers
#73. The concept of harmony being preserved by the universe itself was obviously to his taste: he was getting old and was afraid of death.
Vadim Babenko
#75. It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#76. We were all getting old. That much was as plain as the falling rain.
Haruki Murakami
#77. RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad dreams because you're worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you're getting old.
HARRY: Getting old? Thanks, mate.
J.K. Rowling
#78. When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.
Al Jourgensen
#79. You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.
Denis Norden
#80. What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction?
Tyler Knight
#81. We're getting old, he thought, and it damn sure didn't take long.
James Baldwin
#82. When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'Neill
#83. It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney
#84. Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.
Peter Lindbergh
#85. The game is getting old, and I don't know if it's because I've mastered the art of it, or if I just have some weird attention-deficit-disorder when it comes to getting my way all the time, every time.
Kris Kidd
#86. You're not just getting old, you're getting closer to your death; and you don't want to miss anything.
J. Limbu
#87. So, what do you plan to do with me now? Are we done with the torturing? 'Cause it was getting old,
N.R. Marxsen
#88. The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.
Richard Virenque
#89. The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.
Jerry Hall
#90. I may be getting old, but not foolish.
Elia Kazan
#91. One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.
George Carlin
#92. When he was 19, Mick Jagger said, "what a drag it is getting old... (Mother's little Helper)
The Stones
#93. I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant.
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.
Elizabeth Wein
#94. Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
Karl Pilkington
#95. Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren't. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#96. Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.
Louise Hay
#97. Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.
-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
J. Matthew Nespoli
#98. We stand in the bathroom and look at our face and say, "Stop getting old, face. I command you!" and it doesn't listen. Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.
Amy Poehler
#99. As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
Paul Auster
#100. Kill the unclean one!
Being called that was really getting old. Like it'd been funny the first two times ...
Kresley Cole
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