Aging Quotes

1128 quotes by 787 authors

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that. — Epictetus
One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this… — Nora Ephron
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've… — Paul Gauguin
I will stay in my bed! — Jean Paul Gaultier
I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to… — Lewis Grizzard
Aging will create the music of the coming century. — Betty Friedan
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads… — Theophile Gautier
Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes… — Tracey Emin
Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender. — Albert Brooks
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! — Franz Grillparzer
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. — Jeffrey Eugenides
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have. — Andy Goldsworthy
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister
There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life,… — Joan D. Chittister
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost… — Francesco Clemente
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt… — Nancy A. Collins
People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who… — Rita Moreno
Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job. — Paul Leautaud
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and… — Robert Genn

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