Top 100 Quotes About Getting Older
#1. Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.
Pauline Quirke
#2. There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.
Mark Hunt
#3. You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself
about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time
is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used
the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole
different story.
Diane Sawyer
#4. Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.
Stevie Nicks
#5. Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?
Henri Nouwen
#6. The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
Dave Eggers
#7. When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.
Gerard Depardieu
#8. When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.
Nicole Holofcener
#9. The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.
Julian Clary
#10. Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.
Anna Quindlen
#11. One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.
Lorne Michaels
#12. There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
Erica Jong
#13. I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry
#14. In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
Michael Caine
#15. 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.
Dan Groat
#16. As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them.
Brooke Shields
#17. It's interesting when you're in your thirties and you're not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people's anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.
Rupert Graves
#18. I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.
Dave Matthews
#19. I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
Alanis Morissette
#20. 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.
Twiggy
#21. It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.
Michelle Monaghan
#22. As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.
Andrew Solomon
#23. I kept getting older while he stayed young, my tiny husband.
Miranda July
#24. Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
Will Self
#25. You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
#26. The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
Eric Idle
#27. When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.
Jeff Foxworthy
#28. I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.
Patrick Wolf
#29. If I've learned anything - anything - getting older, it's the value of moment-to-moment enjoyment.
Judd Apatow
#30. There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.
Daniel Gilbert
#31. I am getting older and am, I daresay, impatient of lost years and months," Fawcett complained to Keltie in early 1918. Later
David Grann
#32. You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.
Bill Engvall
#33. As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.
Ridley Scott
#34. I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.
H. Jon Benjamin
#35. One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.
Lee Marvin
#36. some people just can't take getting older, even though there's nothing more certain in life than dying itself
Lisa Ballantyne
#37. As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.
Jane Fonda
#38. I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
Amy Grant
#39. Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
Patricia Arquette
#40. 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
#41. I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".
Elizabeth Lesser
#42. Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.
George Clooney
#43. The great part about getting older is you realize that you don't have to impress anyone else.
Ruth Cardello
#44. Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
Anna Quindlen
#45. He's getting older," Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?
Suzanne Brockmann
#46. I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.
Gene Luen Yang
#47. 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
#48. I have heard it said that children are getting older. I think adults are getting younger.
Abigail Tarttelin
#50. Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.
Nora Ephron
#51. Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.
David Hyde Pierce
#52. I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.
Fannie Flagg
#53. Happy people look young. You're really afraid of getting older, aren't you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
Deborah Smith
#54. What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.
Hugh Hefner
#55. I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.
Selena Gomez
#56. I'm good with getting older because I feel like, one day, I know I will love myself.
Amanda Seyfried
#57. People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
Rachel Griffiths
#58. I would say I'm more patient, way more patient than I was when I came in [to the league], before the injuries. But I think just going through everything, just maturing a little bit more, getting older, you start to see what it is and I'm good.
Derrick Rose
#59. 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
#60. Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.
Andrew Motion
#61. And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.
Sonia Braga
#62. I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Nancy Astor
#63. You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
Joan Collins
#64. I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.
Adam Sandler
#65. 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
#66. I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?
Jens Voigt
#67. I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside ...
Delvene Delaney
#68. That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.
Aldous Huxley
#69. 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
#70. I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
#71. Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.
Lisa Vidal
#72. 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.
Ozzy Osbourne
#73. Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.
Lawrence Halprin
#74. Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.
Siobhan Finneran
#75. 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.
Garth Brooks
#76. We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded; unless you're a cancer survivor! Then we love people reminding us!
Chris Geiger
#77. Something nonhuman doesn't become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
Randy Alcorn
#78. 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
#79. There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.
Corey Taylor
#80. I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#81. You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
Angel Cabrera
#82. Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
Iggy Pop
#84. Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.
Mickey Rourke
#85. Our souls are getting older and we're tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions.
Echo Bodine
#86. That is one of the problems with getting older. There is a distinct lag time between how you see others and how you view yourself. I still thought of myself as looking twenty-four.
Emily Giffin
#87. It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.
Anjelica Huston
#88. My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
Sting
#89. Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.
Rodney Dangerfield
#90. I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
Sue Grafton
#91. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part - there was no one to blame and no way to reverse
Miranda July
#92. With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things are clearer earlier. Being young meant flailing around a lot, especially as I was trying to invent new shapes without a ton of models.
Laura Mullen
#93. I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#94. Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.
Sela Ward
#95. One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.
David Hare
#97. The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
Allen Johnson
#98. I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.
Kurt Warner
#99. 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
#100. I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.
Kate Zambreno
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