Getting Older Quotes - Page 14

• So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

  John Mayer

  Scared, Young

  Song: Stop This Train, Album: Continuum, 2006

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• Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day — while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

  Alan Moore

  Tired, Here I Am, People

  "Fictional character: Dr. Manhattan". "Watchmen", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• 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.

  Portia de Rossi

  Reality, Thinking, Desire

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

  Josh Lanyon

  Fall, Bed, Half

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• Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mean, Way, Wonder

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Birthday, Anniversary

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Self, Differences

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• The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Procrastination, Years

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Birthday, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Happy Birthday, Age, Disease

  "Why brands side-line the over-50s at their peril" by Crispin Reed, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

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• It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Birthday, Firsts

  "Mark Twain's Letters".

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• The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

  Goldie Hawn

  Years, World, Surprise

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• But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

  Jenny Offill

  Fun, Fewer, Seems

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books

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• Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Children, People, Body

  "Christina Aguilera: 'I Embrace My Body' Through Aging and Motherhood". Interview with Jessica Herndon, people.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

  Christina Aguilera

  Want, Fluffy

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

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Real, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mitch Albom

  Reality, Atheism, Unhappy

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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• If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

  George Burns

  Funny, Birthday, Death

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

  Susan Sontag

  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Age

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

  Billy Cannon

  Death, Years, Dying

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• One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Mean, Use, Conservative

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