Top 111 Getting Older Quotes

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you’re doing has any true impact.

I’m not afraid to play my age. I never was. I’ve never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

I’m sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you’re supposed to, but I feel like it’s time, when you get older, through experience, to… I started to feel quite… what’s the word? … intimidated by seeing both sides of everything.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships – not about a murder mystery. It’s about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.

I don’t understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I used to love getting older.

One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you’re younger than you thought you were.

Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person… I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.

If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.

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’ve got allergies. Really badly. I’m getting worse as I’m getting older.

I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It’s not that bad really.

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.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative – and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

We’re getting older, and we were never taught these things as kids: how to eat the right portions or the right food.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

Dublin’s a great place. It really is. It’s a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I’ve realized that growing up more. I’m loving my country more as I’m getting older.

Getting older is hard.

While younger women are told to be thinner and prettier, ads for older women emphasize looking younger and wrinkle free – tapping into the insecurities that many of us have about getting older.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

I see my parents getting older and I think ‘How can I prevent what is going to happen to me?’

I feel fine about getting older because I’m in good shape. I’m 64 and I feel good.

I don’t mind getting older. I’m enjoying not having that raging ambition I’ve had all my life.

Believe me, I’ve totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don’t care. I think that’s one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

When you’re getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what’s the point of your life.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It’s one of the few benefits of getting older.

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.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

I’m getting older. That’s realistic. I can’t reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

As time goes by and you’re getting older and stuff like that – getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, ‘Oh, you can age with dignity.’ Really?

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There’s always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone’s watching! I’d like to embrace getting older, because it’s kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I’m supposed to look – it’s a work in progress.

I’m getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better.

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he’s going to make a skateboard ramp. It’s just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We’re not even going to finish it.

I don’t like getting older, but there’s nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn’t great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.

I’m just getting older and better.

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 because of softball.

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

I don’t know if it’s that the scripts are evolving or just that I’m getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you’ve lived more life at different stages. You’ve loved; you’ve lost; you have more of that journey.

As I’m getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I’m getting older, and those days are long gone.

People are getting older – that is a good thing – but there isn’t enough funding in the system. And there’s a whole number of injustices.

I don’t worry. I’m more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I’m not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I’m away from my family or doing a job I’m not enjoying.

I buy the market through index funds. Since I’m getting older, I buy TIPS.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Getting older is a fact of life.

I’m pretty fit, naturally. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well and I think it has an effect on me. But hey, I’m putting on the insulin tire like everybody else, but that’s just a function of getting older.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don’t begrudge everyone else what they have.

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 has compensations, though when you hit 50 you become very aware of your own mortality and it makes you reassess.

Losing friends is the worst thing about getting older.

There was so much music growing up. But definitely Lil Wayne was a big influence because I had more of an understanding of what I was listening to when I was getting older.

Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, ‘I want to prove something,’ right? ‘I’ve got to prove how tough I am. I’ve got to prove how good I am.’ And man, now as I’m getting older, I think it’s almost sad when guys my age and older still have that chip on their shoulder.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.