Getting Old Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Getting Old". There are currently 3 quotes in our collection about Getting Old. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Getting Old!
The best sayings about Getting Old that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

    Hair   Facts   Losing  
    Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.62, Simon and Schuster
  • What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

    Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida
  • It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

  • Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

    Funny   Life   Birthday  
    Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.
  • I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I feel like everything is going to happen then. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I'm always one of the first ones to say, "Let's try that."

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

    Interview with Anne Szustek, twelvmag.com. February 24, 2015.
  • It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

    Age   Aging   Problem  
    Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”
  • Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

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

    Source: www.washingtontimes.com
  • I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

    "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.
  • The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America
  • The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  • When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

  • We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.

  • As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

    Boys   Littles   Strange  
    Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.501, Macmillan
  • Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  • The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

    Mean Girls   Women   Age  
  • 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.

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

    Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.
  • 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

  • There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

    Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.
  • Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

    Funny   Time   Thinking  
  • For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.

    Nice   Mean   Years  
  • 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.

  • Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

    Wise   Odds   Smoking  
  • Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

    Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935
  • There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

    "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.
  • And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

    Grieving   People   Sick  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan
Page of
We hope our collection of Getting Old quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Getting Old is constantly growing (today it includes 3 sayings from famous people about Getting Old), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Getting Old!