Best Getting Older Quotes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

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

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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?

If you’re not going to get any wiser, what’s the point of getting older?

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

People do and say very nice things, which they tend to do when you get older, which I’m flattered by. But I know, at times, I was an [expletive], too.

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

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

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.

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

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

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?’

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I’m still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They’re one of those things where you’re forced to be happy. And even if you’re totally depressed, you’re got to pretend you’re glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older means you’re closer to dying.

I want to see 61, and one day I want to see 90, so that means I have to keep having birthdays. So what am I supposed to do? Be ashamed because I’m getting older? No, how about I embrace myself, my age, the space that God has put me in, and learn from and teach other people and we support each other as women, because we’re all beautiful – different sizes, shapes, colors – and we celebrate ourselves as we grow older and become better.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

Life is all about finding yourself through experiences, and about learning more and more about who you are and what you’re capable of. If you’re getting older and not succeeding in anything or doing anything to make a positive impact on people, then you’re not living. You’re just waiting for death. Get out there and make an impact on people, whether it’s by helping them directly or by doing research to make their lives better or just by inspiring them. Do something good to be remembered for. This is more important than money.

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.

I’m a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome – because you get more practice.

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.

I don’t love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I’ve got enough experience to balance things up. But I don’t like the physical side of getting older and I don’t like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I’d take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever.

I wondered if that’s what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn’t have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

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

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.

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.

the heart never grows old.