Being Old Quotes - Page 2

• Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

  Maggie Scarf

  Inspirational, People, Happens

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

  Bel Kaufman

  Age, Want, Firsts

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• Being old is such a treat!

  Shirley MacLaine

  Treats

  "Shirley MacLaine grows old and mean - for "Bernie"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

  Stella Vine

  Self, Age, Able

  "The 5-Minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There have been a few times" by Karl Mansfield, The Independent, November 28, 2005.

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• Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Names, People, Acting

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• I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

  Billy Crystal

  Black, Comedy, Comfortable

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• I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

  Steve Kanaly

  Television, Roger, Film

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• Being vintage like a fine wine
  Should make you proud of being old
  And being mature like a cheese
  Certainly explains the mould!
  Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Wine, Vintage

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• ...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Way, Firsts, Young

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

  John Piper

  Age, Vices, Novelty

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• I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

  John Scalzi

  Mind, Young, Getting Old

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.22, Macmillan

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• I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Weight Loss, Mind

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• Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

  Mitch Albom

  Problem, Deals, Getting Old

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Strong, Morning, Yesterday

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• I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

  Sylvia Plath

  Self, Dry Up, People

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Enough, Young, Stills

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• She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Mean, Simple, Wake Up

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• At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Marriage, Girl, Wedding

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Risk, Mind, Age

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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• I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

  Jon Meacham

  Two, People, Grandparent

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• We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.

  Terri E Apter

  Mistake, Numbers, People

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• Nor bird nor beast
  Could make me wish for anything this day,
  Being old, but that the old alone might die,
  And that would be against God's Providence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Bird, Wish, Would Be

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

  Fanny Burney

  Long, Age, Desire

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Thinking, Age, Old You

  "Director's Cut: Paolo Sorrentino ('The Great Beauty')". Interview with David Ehrlich, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2013.

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