Getting Old Quotes

“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

“Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”
― Phyllis Diller

“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“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?”
― Arctic Monkeys, Favourite Worst Nightmare (Guitar Tab): (Guitar Tab/Vocal)

“When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.”
― Émile Zola, Pot Luck

“It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every single one of us will get sick and die. Everyone we know and love will too. There's no escaping, but it is these hardest moments, these most difficult times, that show what we're truly made of and what we can truly overcome.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“It would of course be a shame to get too old. There’s no virtue in living too long. Living shouldn’t become a habit.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

“As the years go by, I see my youth slip away
And with each passing day, I can't help but to dismay
At the choices that I've made and the paths that I've trod
And the things that I regret, the mistakes that I've not

For with age comes wisdom, and with wisdom comes regret
For all the things I could have done, but never quite did yet
And all the things I should have said, but held back in fear
And all the chances that I missed, year after year

But though the wrinkles on my face may tell a different tale
I know that it's not too late, for life is not a jail
And though I may be getting old, I still have time to start
To make new choices, take new paths, and heal a broken heart

So here I stand, at the crossroads once again
With time and choices stretching out before me like a pen
And though the road ahead may be long and winding still
I'll make the most of every day, and savor every thrill

For I may be getting old, but I am not yet done
And though I may have regrets, I'll rise above, and won.”
― Alex Haditaghi

“I hate the way we’re getting old,
Hate the weary in my soul
Let’s not regret the ways it didn’t go”
― Apollo Blake, Nocturnalisms

“At old age, one realizes that life is truly a dream.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“The face that stares back at you from the mirror later in life is so different than when you're young. There's a winnowing away and a shutting down. A sense of something having been taken from you and you don't know exactly what it is, just that it isn't there anymore.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

“I know what I look like. I have no choice (....) What am I going to do about it? Stop aging? Disappear?”
― Sarah Jessica Parker

“Becoming older didn’t sadden me. The realization that time actually moves made me sad. Years go by and moments become older. Distance becomes longer. Moments which were yesterday suddenly span decades. I don’t miss myself as a child. I miss the moments in my childhood which founded the person I am today. Curiosity, conversations, touch, and hurt - those are things I miss. Those are things which made me who I am.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Yet if I'm so afraid of feeling sad thinking about the big picture that I can't talk about it, then I'm avoiding a really important truth, which is that I will (I hope) get old. And if I avoid that truth I may fail to plan for the later years of my life, and for the costs of the end of my life.”
― Julie Lythcott-Haims, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult

“One day you’re the queen of the hill. The next day you’re invisible. And by day, I mean decade – with the dead tucked between the C and the E. Oh, foolish, cynical me!”
― Caroline Hurry, Reign: 16 secrets from 6 Queens to rule your world with clarity, connection & sovereignty

“He yawned, his face performing that universal mixture of a smile and a frown as he stretched his arms out. One was not sure why faces did this—either waking people were activating their muscles in preparation for the day or more soulfully, the smile was gratitude for life and the frown to follow was recognition of what that life entailed.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Lately I’m too tired to care
about getting old. I never put my phone down.
I scroll many futures away. I sleep many futures
away, I write them away, the longer I live,
the more the future disappears.”
― Lena Moses-Schmidt

“Vigilance fled in old age and man was like the other animals then, who science said could not see themselves. Here man was fully animal again, but he was still tender... you never lost what you were, never lost it fully. There was always the suspicion of a past life that faded and returned.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

“Scegliere è sempre invecchiare, ma è solo a 19 anni che il mondo ti accorda ancora l'indulgenza di chiamarla crescita.”
― Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole

“Time is everyone's enemy.”
― Eduvie Donald

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what they say. I hum my songs and march ahead.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Becoming older doesn’t sadden me. The never ending length between a memory does.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“You grow, not because you do, but because you have to.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“What may not matter now may matter the most when it's too late.”
― Sharky Rich

“The most important mindset in old age is to throw away the despair that the road is ending and to have the optimism that the end of the road can suddenly disappear and that anything is possible in this universe!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Crying 'bout getting old—Patricia, you need to get up off
what God gave you. Say a prayer and start slinging. Cue hips.”
― Patricia Smith

“The older we get, the more likely we are to replace boredom with exhaustion.”
― Jason Daniel Chaplin

“We’re no longer knocking on heaven’s door; we’ve reached the age where we’ve had keys cut.”
― Meg Marlow, Grumpy & Me: From 9-to-5 to 24-7. The Unofficial Guide to Marriage in Retirement