“In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal. In your forties, you just pray it doesn't hurt too much, and by the time you reach my age, you become convinced that, well, it could be just around the corner. Do I think about death a lot? It's difficult not…”— Lemmy Kilmister, independent.co.uk
“Alice Cook: Why did you quit, Tom? Magnum: It was nothing earth-shattering. One day I woke up age 33, and realized I'd never been 23.”— Glen A. Larson, Thomas Magnum, Tom Selleck, imdb.com
“Mary, I came to Minneapolis because of the cold. I figured if I was frozen I'd keep better.”— Allan Burns, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com
“We're going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“In my 40s and early 50s, I was always worried about getting old. Then one night I was a little drunk and thought: Hang on, you’re already old, so stop worrying about it. And suddenly those insecurities melted away.”— Wayne Coyne, theguardian.com
“Nobody will care if you leave the party now. You’re still very well-liked and respected, I promise.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“It is the general opinion that with age must come decrepitude, that its inevitable accompaniments are wigs, spectacles, ear trumpets, false teeth, weak knees, asthma, neuralgia and rheumatism. This is by no means the case. I know several old gentlemen on the shady side of eighty who read without spe…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ecssba.rutgers.edu
“The only thing I’m concerned with now is being in my seventies and being able to be proficient. I mean, I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work. I’m hoping that people will come along and see me just because, or maybe more than because I’m a curiosity. I know that is part of it,…”— Eric Clapton, consequenceofsound.net
“I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.”— Martha Stewart, today.com
“I do. Yes, I do. Sick have I become, old and weak... When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?”— Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Yoda, Frank Oz, amazon.com
“We can't live together forever. What do we expect, to be sixty years old and still be sharing clothes and a cat?”— Sheryl J. Anderson, Phoebe Halliwell, Alyssa Milano, imdb.com
“Jack: Do you want to be alone for the rest of your life? Liz: No, I just wish I could start a relationship about 12 years in, when you really don’t have to try anymore and you can just sit around together and goof on TV shows, and then go to bed without anybody trying any funny business.”— John Riggi, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“I'm just old. You'll get there sooner than you think.”— Alexander Cary, Saul Berenson, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com
“At my age, how much can I sin? What, I had an impure thought? I'd kill to have an impure thought.”— Terry Grossman, Kathy Speer, imdb.com
“Dorothy: You know, Ma, you don't look good. Sophia: I'm short and I'm old. What are you expecting—Princess Di?”— Susan Harris, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Bea Arthur, imdb.com
“If we can replace everything—cells, tissues—as we live, then there would be presumably no limits to how long we could live. But if we replace our neurons, we’re also rewriting our own experience in the process, and cease to be ourselves. I think that’s the real penalty for extending life beyond the…”— Philip Ball, aging.nautil.us
“Older people report higher levels of contentment or well-being than teenagers and young adults. The six elders put faces on this statistic. If they were not always gleeful, they were resilient and not paralyzed by the challenges that came their way. All had known loss and survived. None went to a jo…”— John Leland, mobile.nytimes.com