Aging Quotes

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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining… — Judith Viorst
Oh, my God. I've just told you how old I am. Nobody knows how old I am. I'm going to have to kill you now. — Rita Rudner
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young… — Doris Lessing
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?… — Agnes Repplier
The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient… — Lydia M. Child
I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I've seen women of thirty-five who are old and people of… — Joan Collins
Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in… — Diane Keaton
Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should… — Susan Sarandon
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end.… — Diane Lane
You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now.… — Sharon Stone
When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh!… — Helen Mirren
Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more… — Jamie Lee Curtis
At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done. — Lisa Kudrow
The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it. — Emma Thompson
I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about… — Jodie Foster
For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's… — Jane Lynch
I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine.… — Queen Latifah
I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much… — Lauren Graham

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