Quotes tagged ‘Getting Older’

“We have pain on a cycle for years and years and years and then, just when you feel you are making peace with it all, what happens? The menopause comes. The fucking menopause comes and it is the most most wonderful fucking thing in the world! And, yes, your entire pelvic floor crumbles and you get fu…”

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Belinda, Kristin Scott Thomas, imdb.com

“I’m not saving up for anything. I’m cashing it all now. I’ve always had this thing inside me that, when I’m done, I’ll kill myself. swear to God that’s not suicidal – it’s definitely a positive thing. The moment I start shitting the bed is when you’ll see me on the front of a bus.”

— Keith Flint, metro.co.uk

“I know that at 41, I’m not as attractive as I was at 20, People tell me, ‘You say that because you’ve integrated a masculine vision of desire.’ No, not at all. It’s because, she says, “We’re born, we grow up, we get stronger, we have a peak of physical and sensual power. And then we get older, and b…”

— Blanche Gardin, nytimes.com

“I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”

— Michelle Obama, amazon.com

“When you're little, you learn how to see things that aren't there. And when you grow up, you learn how to make them real.”

— Mike Flanagan, Olivia Crain, Carla Gugino, imdb.com

“The myth of female empowerment has always been on a collision course with the reality.”

— Lisa Miller, thecut.com

“I don’t consider myself a grandfather. I don’t even want to hear the term. There’s nothing good about the clock.”

— , archive.is

“A person who is not afraid of looking like a fool gets to do a lot more dancing.”

— Margaret Renkl, nytimes.com

“She asked me what I wanted. As if one ever really knew. And I said, 'Dull domestication, free from pressure to pursue another love, another touch, another tired conversation.'”

— Slaughter Beach, Dog, open.spotify.com

“How have we not been freaking out about our futures more? I am turning 27 tomorrow!”

— Grant Sloss, Kelsey Peters, Hilary Duff, 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

“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”

— Zach Galifianakis, thoughtcatalog.com

“I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.”

— Larry David, thoughtcatalog.com

“I think it’s rare that your life perfectly aligns with the daydream you doodled over and over.”

— Amelia Diamond, manrepeller.com

“If you think you look old in a Photo you just took, consider instead that you will never again be that young.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“One’s dreams, unlike the city, become less populous the older one gets. That’s why the eternal rest cancels analysis.”

— Joseph Brodsky, poetryfoundation.org

“I like to think my and Ashlee’s lives have progressed in tandem: She upgraded husbands from Pete Wentz to Evan Ross, graduated from MTV to Broadway; I upgraded from AIM to Twitter, graduated from writing in my diary to screaming into the void.”

— Allie Volpe, thecut.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

“Getting older means accepting that the people you've grown to love won't be here forever.”

— Issa Rae, twitter.com

“It's funny, as you get older, things that were boring as hell when you were young suddenly become the epiphany of truth.”

— Jean Touitou, amazon.com