Getting Old Quotes

246 quotes by 219 authors

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't… — Chuck Palahniuk
I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient… — Sara Gruen
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,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell… — Barbara Kingsolver
I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can still be cool when youâ€™re dead. In fact, itâ€™s much easier, because you arenâ€™t getting old and fat and losing your hair. — Audrey Niffenegger
What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. Thatâ€™s the reality of getting old, and I guess thatâ€™s really the crux… — Sara Gruen
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. — Phyllis Diller
Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you must only work… — Elizabeth Gilbert
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if… — Sara Gruen
It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me… — Bil Keane
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me. — John Scalzi
Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners… — Jennifer Egan
Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem — Mitch Albom
Everything people do that doesnâ€™t work has to be somebody elseâ€™s fault. Next time you know, geezersâ€™ll be suing the government for getting old and… — Lionel Shriver
Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better! — Ingrid Bergman
Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old. — Spencer Johnson

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