Quotes tagged ‘Getting Old’

“If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old.”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam the Lion, Ben Johnson, imdb.com

“If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old.”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam the Lion, Ben Johnson, imdb.com

“Dr. Frasier Crane: Niles, I'm 41. That's hardly middle-aged. Middle age is more like 50, 55. Dr. Niles Crane: Only if you live to be 110.”

— Sy Dukane, Denise Moss, Frasier Crane, Kelsey Grammer, imdb.com

“'Tis one of the many privileges of the old, to see the world about them always young and full of children.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“When you’ve got gray hair, every move you make seems “young” and “spry,” instead of just being normally active.”

— Andy Warhol, amazon.com

“My wife was worried about getting older, so before she woke up on her birthday, I cut off all the white hairs she had. For some reason, she woke up bald and in a bad attitude”

— Anthro_DragonFerrite, reddit.com

“And time is a dictator, as we know it. Where does it go? What does it do? Most of all, is it alive? Is it a thing that we cannot touch and is it alive? And then, one day, you look in the mirror — you’re old — and you say, “Where does the time go?””

— Nina Simone, open.spotify.com

“I don't have a 401(K), so as of now, my retirement plan is to overdose on drugs.”

— Matt Ingebretson, Jake Weisman, Matt, Matt Ingebretson, imdb.com

“I know that true love is supposed to be companionship, growing old together, blah blah blah. I thought that was what friends were for, not sexual partners!”

— John Waters, amazon.com

“In America, you see, you die twice—once when you grow old, and once when you actually die.”

— Karan Mahajan, amazon.com

“We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable this foundation becomes.”

— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org

“Old age ain’t no place for sissies. You’re up against a lot of obstacles, including your own worries and other people’s expectations of you as you age, but as long as you remember that you’re in control of your own well-being, you can succeed no matter how old the calendar tells you are. Hold on to…”

— Sandra LaMorgese, journal.thriveglobal.com

“I wonder how our bodies will change as we get old. I wonder how we’ll feel about things that haven’t happened to us yet.”

— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com

“The saddest realization I’ve had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.”

— Amy Schumer, amazon.com

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”

— Anthony Powell, amazon.com

“Someone plays a chord. The choirmaster says, ‘Yes. But remember, old men lie awake at night. Have pity, for whether or not the aches and pains they feel are true, we must be patient with them. Because someday that old man will be you.'”

— Sara Houhteling, narrativemagazine.com