Alternatives Quote by Sara Gruen

When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages…

— John Mortimer

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

— Ted Koppel

As I get older, I'm more comfortable with the idea of dying.

— Courtney Act

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

— Martha Plimpton

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception…

— Martha Beck

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

— Harper Lee

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and…

— Dick Van Dyke

Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that…

— Doris Lessing

I prefer old age to the alternative.

— Maurice Chevalier

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

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never…

— Eric Burdon