Getting Older Quotes - Page 16

• I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

  Leslie Mann

  Dad, Father, Kids

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• Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

  Deborah Smith

  People, Looks, Should

  Deborah Smith (2006). “The Crossroads Cafe”, p.228, BelleBooks

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• If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Wiser, Ifs

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

  Michael Sheen

  Struggle, Acceptance, Hysteria

  "Michael Sheen: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

  Stevie Nicks

  Children, Getting Old

  "Song: "Landslide" ("Fleetwood Mac")". 1975.

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

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• I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Thinking, Cooking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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  I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  I Love You, Daughter, Fun

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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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• Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

  Gwen Stefani

  Self, Fabulous, Young

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• Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

  Andy Warhol

  Baby, War, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Wine, Simple, Glasses

  "Locations: A Wine Life Hack" by Tara Fass, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2016.

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• The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

  Monica Ali

  Needs, Certain

  "Brick Lane: A Novel". Book by Monica Ali, 2003.

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