Arms Quote by Will Self

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less…

— Nick Cave

“Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different…

— Midnight in Paris

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

— Tahar Djaout

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles…

— Bari Weiss

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way…

— Michael Bierut

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our…

— George Vaillant

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We sometimes get lost in a bubble... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it…

— Ray Winstone

You see a lot of people get into 40, 50 years old and have these mid-life crises' or whatever their called because they realize…

— Asher Roth

Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing…

— Craig Finn

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and…

— Claire Danes