Accumulating Quote by Michael Longley

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

— Rem Koolhaas

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

— Gladys Taber

You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

— Jack LaLanne

You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

— Christiane Northrup

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

— Ronald Blythe

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

— Rowan Atkinson

I guess you just have to embrace aging, right?

— Brook Lopez

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

— Jonathan Pryce

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts -…

— Agnes Repplier

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are…

— Damien Hirst