Best Getting Old Quotes

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don’t get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

I know I’m getting old because there will be times when I’m not even doing anything and I’ll think, ‘I need to go wipe my ass right now.’

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let’s learn to make a huge contribution to life.

One of the good things about getting older is you find you’re more interesting than most of the people you meet.

Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you’re a cheese

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.

There’s no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that’s sold to women—that we’re supposed to believe that if we’re getting older, we’ve failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.

It’s nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: ‘How come I’m the only person who’s getting older?’

I’m getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life’s crazy.

My skin may have wrinkles but it’s because I’m smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it’s immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

I’m getting older, and it happens. You don’t care as much. I don’t care about too much anymore. I’ve got to think about that a little bit.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

You know how to tell when you’re getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

Maybe I’ve lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I’m getting old every year, and eventually they’re going to be right. There’s nobody in this game that’s doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.

Do I know my lines? As I’m getting older, they’re getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.

I’m not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

I’m getting older every day, and I’m going to be making music until I drop dead.

I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We’re really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south.

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there’s something perfect in the imperfection. It’s all very human.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.