Being Old Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Being Old". There are currently 50 quotes in our collection about Being Old. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Being Old!
The best sayings about Being Old that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

    Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  • Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

    Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.35, Open Road Media
  • Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

    Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935
  • I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

  • 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.

  • But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to.

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

    Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books
  • I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

    Mind   Young   Being Old  
    John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.22, Macmillan
  • Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

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

  • We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

    Dumb   Use   Cant  
    1940 Pal Joey, ch.1.
  • I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

  • Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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

    Funny   Humor   Thinking  
  • 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

    Birthday   Wine   Vintage  
  • I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

    Thinking   Trying   Kind  
    Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.
  • Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

    Enough   Young   Stills  
  • Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.

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

    "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)
  • 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.

    Marriage   Girl   Wedding  
    Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics
  • I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

    Names   Age   Add  
  • On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

    Nice   Comfort   Way  
    "The Unexpurgated Code". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1975.
  • For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

    Play   White   People  
    "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.
  • 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.

    Age   Vices   Novelty  
  • The mind doesn't know anything about age, your subconscious mind knows nothing about time or space. And so, I am hanging around young people all the time and I operate like they do. I don't think of myself as being old.

    Thinking   Space   People  
    Source: pavlinapapalouka.com
  • Being old is such a treat!

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

    Self   Dry Up   People  
    Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor
Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope our collection of Being Old quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Being Old is constantly growing (today it includes 50 sayings from famous people about Being Old), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Being Old!