Age Quotes

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

~ Virginia Woolf

Twenty-seven.”His brow puckered, and he blinked over at her. “Twenty-seven hundred years, right?”If he were speaking to Taliyah, yes. “No. Just twenty-seven plain, ordinary years.”“You don’t mean human years, do you?”“No. I mean dog years,” she said dryly, then pressed her lips together. Where was the filter that was usually poised over her mouth? Strider didn’t seem to mind, though. Rather, he seemed stupefied. Would Sabin have had the same reaction were he awake? “What’s so hard to believe about my age?” As the question echoed between them, a thought occurred to her and she blanched. “Do I look ancient?”“No, no. Of course not. But you’re immortal. Powerful.

~ Gena Showalter

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

~ Sara Gruen

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

~ Jessica Simpson

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

~ Alex Shakar

In your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m — you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you’re not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it.

~ Sara Gruen

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

~ Julian Barnes

…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everything’s coming about as it has. It might just have well as turned out differently. The events of people’s lives have, after all, only to the last degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards them

~ Robert Musil

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

~ Neil Gaiman

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

~ Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

I am older than your age and younger than your body.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

~ Craig Ferguson

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

~ Charles Frazier

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The good thing about being old is not being young.

~ Stephen Richards

Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

~ Billie Burke

With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.

~ Rae Lori

You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.

~ Patrick O'brian

You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.

~ Hayley Linfield

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

~ Louis L'amour

What can ever equal the memory of being young together?

~ Michael Stein

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

~ Tove Jansson

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

~ José Saramago

At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

~ Mark Haddon

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

~ Lillian Gish

Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up??

~ Bheng927

No, time has silverted the dark sheen of her hair, and thickened her body, and lined the corners of her eyes and her lips.He saw in them the hints of the smile he loved, and knew, to be fair, that time had been no kinder to him. Or perhaps, it had been just as kind; for she did not look the part of a young girl, and she was not: she was stronger, wiser, and more just than the fear of youth allowed; she gave him the shelter that he needed, on the rare occasions that that need drove him. She trusted him, always; she looked up to him, still; he strove, in every way, to continue to live up to her expectation. She was the one person in his life he did not wish to disappoint.

~ Michelle Sagara West

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...

~ Clive Barker

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

~ Nicole Kidman

You're very old, aren't you?Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

~ Philippa Pearce

I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.

~ Emily Giffin

My age makes him nervous and shamey, cause his eyes keep heading southwards and then back up, guilty. I can tell I can make his eyes swirl and that's just about all I want to do.

~ Andrea Portes

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

~ Lara Adrian

William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

~ Marc Norman

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

~ Stephen Richards

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

~ Don Delillo

He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.

~ J.g. Ballard