Getting Older Quotes
A gentler way to think about the years adding up.
These lines look at aging less as decline and more as a shift in vantage point, where distant events finally make sense and roles once considered limiting start to open up. Several voices here describe feeling both wiser and, oddly, still not fully grown. For related moods, check out Feel quotes.
The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.
When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.
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When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true....
I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'
Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.
I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.
I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?
I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on...
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
I realised as I was getting older, I was eating healthier and healthier, and I realised I didn't really need to eat meat.
The ultimate gathering when I was younger would be an over-the-top Christmas party. Now, ugh, it's so sad... as I'm getting older, I kind of look forward to more intimate, really nice dinners.
Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
We're getting older, and we were never taught these things as kids: how to eat the right portions or the right food.
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started...
