Getting Old Quotes
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![George Burns](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1248450358i/43259._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.”
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![Phyllis Diller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209492226i/271137._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”
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![Jennifer Egan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1676045682i/49625._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
![Alex Turner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1308634740i/210861._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your nightdress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness...
...Remeber when the boys were all electric?”
― Favourite Worst Nightmare (Guitar Tab): (Guitar Tab/Vocal)
Now you only get it in your nightdress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness...
...Remeber when the boys were all electric?”
― Favourite Worst Nightmare (Guitar Tab): (Guitar Tab/Vocal)
![Katherine Dunn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1659452254i/8622._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.”
― Geek Love
― Geek Love
![Mehmet Murat ildan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1371463140i/3164882._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young!”
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![Todd Perelmuter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1699630932i/21817526._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Every single one of us will get sick and die. Everyone we know and love will too. There's no escaping, but it is these hardest moments, these most difficult times, that show what we're truly made of and what we can truly overcome.”
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![Maya Angelou](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1379017377i/3503._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really.”
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“As the years go by, I see my youth slip away
And with each passing day, I can't help but to dismay
At the choices that I've made and the paths that I've trod
And the things that I regret, the mistakes that I've not
For with age comes wisdom, and with wisdom comes regret
For all the things I could have done, but never quite did yet
And all the things I should have said, but held back in fear
And all the chances that I missed, year after year
But though the wrinkles on my face may tell a different tale
I know that it's not too late, for life is not a jail
And though I may be getting old, I still have time to start
To make new choices, take new paths, and heal a broken heart
So here I stand, at the crossroads once again
With time and choices stretching out before me like a pen
And though the road ahead may be long and winding still
I'll make the most of every day, and savor every thrill
For I may be getting old, but I am not yet done
And though I may have regrets, I'll rise above, and won.”
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And with each passing day, I can't help but to dismay
At the choices that I've made and the paths that I've trod
And the things that I regret, the mistakes that I've not
For with age comes wisdom, and with wisdom comes regret
For all the things I could have done, but never quite did yet
And all the things I should have said, but held back in fear
And all the chances that I missed, year after year
But though the wrinkles on my face may tell a different tale
I know that it's not too late, for life is not a jail
And though I may be getting old, I still have time to start
To make new choices, take new paths, and heal a broken heart
So here I stand, at the crossroads once again
With time and choices stretching out before me like a pen
And though the road ahead may be long and winding still
I'll make the most of every day, and savor every thrill
For I may be getting old, but I am not yet done
And though I may have regrets, I'll rise above, and won.”
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![Apollo Blake](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1636914863i/13845792._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I hate the way we’re getting old,
Hate the weary in my soul
Let’s not regret the ways it didn’t go”
― Nocturnalisms
Hate the weary in my soul
Let’s not regret the ways it didn’t go”
― Nocturnalisms
![Jeff VanderMeer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1522640540i/33919._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“The face that stares back at you from the mirror later in life is so different than when you're young. There's a winnowing away and a shutting down. A sense of something having been taken from you and you don't know exactly what it is, just that it isn't there anymore.”
― Hummingbird Salamander
― Hummingbird Salamander
“I know what I look like. I have no choice (....) What am I going to do about it? Stop aging? Disappear?”
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![Dan Pearce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639307515i/3994285._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“My current age is, 'if I don't write it down within three seconds, I'll forget it.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
![Dan Pearce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639307515i/3994285._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The older I get, the less surprised I think I'd be if a random body part just fell off one day.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
![Dan Pearce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639307515i/3994285._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“They say you're only as old as you feel. I think I may be an exhumed mummy or something.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
![Hiromi Kawakami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1403601895i/637929.jpg)
“Having to worry about whether someone is healthy enough to tolerate my fierce hatred or criticism before I decide to blame them -that’s what I call getting old.”
― The Nakano Thrift Shop
― The Nakano Thrift Shop
![Julie Lythcott-Haims](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1602006524i/8531099._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Yet if I'm so afraid of feeling sad thinking about the big picture that I can't talk about it, then I'm avoiding a really important truth, which is that I will (I hope) get old. And if I avoid that truth I may fail to plan for the later years of my life, and for the costs of the end of my life.”
― Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
― Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
![Caroline Hurry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651514544i/3034747._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“One day you’re the queen of the hill. The next day you’re invisible. And by day, I mean decade – with the dead tucked between the C and the E. Oh, foolish, cynical me!”
― Reign: 16 secrets from 6 Queens to rule your world with clarity, connection & sovereignty
― Reign: 16 secrets from 6 Queens to rule your world with clarity, connection & sovereignty
![Kristian Ventura](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1682699040i/18284177._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“He yawned, his face performing that universal mixture of a smile and a frown as he stretched his arms out. One was not sure why faces did this—either waking people were activating their muscles in preparation for the day or more soulfully, the smile was gratitude for life and the frown to follow was recognition of what that life entailed.”
― A Happy Ghost
― A Happy Ghost
“Lately I’m too tired to care
about getting old. I never put my phone down.
I scroll many futures away. I sleep many futures
away, I write them away, the longer I live,
the more the future disappears.”
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about getting old. I never put my phone down.
I scroll many futures away. I sleep many futures
away, I write them away, the longer I live,
the more the future disappears.”
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![Lydia Millet](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1405974518i/8523._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“Vigilance fled in old age and man was like the other animals then, who science said could not see themselves. Here man was fully animal again, but he was still tender... you never lost what you were, never lost it fully. There was always the suspicion of a past life that faded and returned.”
― How the Dead Dream
― How the Dead Dream
![Michela Murgia](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362562846i/2966342._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Scegliere è sempre invecchiare, ma è solo a 19 anni che il mondo ti accorda ancora l'indulgenza di chiamarla crescita.”
― Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
― Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
“Becoming older didn’t sadden me. The realization that time actually moves made me sad. Years go by and moments become older. Distance becomes longer. Moments which were yesterday suddenly span decades. I don’t miss myself as a child. I miss the moments in my childhood which founded the person I am today. Curiosity, conversations, touch, and hurt - those are things I miss. Those are things which made me who I am.”
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