Older Quotes

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

~ Ani Difranco

That thing you thought you'd doYou start to think you can't;You always say tomorrow,But you haven't got a plan.Everyone's asking questions,And all you do is dodge.That career that you'd imaginedWas only a mirage.The older that you get,The smaller that you feel;You forget what's only in your head,And what is really real.Sometimes people make it;They become who they meant to be.But most of the time,Dreamers only dream.

~ Margo T. Rose

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?

~ John Fowles

There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

~ Zoe Cruz

People think I am younger then I really am,because I act so immature.

~ James Hauenstein

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

~ Ricky Maye

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing.All in vain. All wasted.The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker.More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.

~ John Fowles

The average person is in the habit of saying, “The older I get;”’ and he thereby calls the attention of his mind to the idea that he is getting older. In brief, he compels his mind to believe that he is getting older and older, and thereby directs the mind to produce more and more age. The true expression in this connection is, “The longer I live.” This expression calls the mind’s attention to the length of life, which will, in turn, tend to increase the power of that process in you that can prolong life. When people reach the age of sixty or seventy, they usually speak of “the rest of my days,” thus implying the idea that there are only a few more days remaining. The mind is thereby directed to finish life in a short period of time, and accordingly, all the forces of the mind will proceed to work for the speedy termination of personal existence. The correct expression is “from now on,” as, that leads thought into the future indefinitely without impressing the mind with any end whatever.

~ Christian D. Larson

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.

~ Nicole Richie

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

~ Paul Hoffman

It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others...sometimes strangers surprise you and fill that empty space up. Oh, but life has a great balancing act and when that axle turns and you are right side up again...you will definitely not be looking for any long, lost friends because your inner circle is battle-tested to win!

~ Sanjo Jendayi

The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

~ Dan Groat

the toilet is an intimacyonly shared with parents when you are youngand once again when they are olderand with lovers when say on a Sundaymorning stretching into the bathroomyou wake to the sound of stream into bowland go to hug the naked bodystood with its back to you and kiss the neckand taste the whole of the night on thereand smell the morning’s pale yellow lossand take the whole of him in your handand feel the water moving through himand knowing that this is love the prone fleshwhat we expel from the body and what we let inside

~ Andrew Mcmillan

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.

~ Patricia A. Mckillip

The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood…! ~James A. Murphy

~ James A. Murphy

Sometimes, I think, that in the mornings when you first wake up, every thing that happened in the previous day rushes through our mind so fast, we, A: Don't realize it. B: Become more tired, die a little inside, and become groggy. Since everyday, we die a little inside we age closer and closer to death. We constantly grow older, and we're constantly dying. Therefore, don't wake me up early, or I'll take it that you wanted to kill me.

~ Melanie Kay Taylor

You'll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you'll be able to speak out or keep your mouth shut. It's always a challenge to work out the best way to live your life, and as much as everyone tells you what to do, ultimately how you do things is up to you.

~ Kate Jacobs

The more older we get, less question we ask. We have lost contacts, we have lost and the curiosity of the things.

~ Deyth Banger

Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

~ Carew Papritz

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act normal. I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

~ John Elder Robison

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

~ Anne Lamott

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

~ V.c. Andrews

I am not angry at Microsoft, as they did give me Windows 10 for free! I do feel a little misled about its reliability on older computers never certified for its installation by the manufacturer though.

~ Steven Magee

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

~ Steven Herrick

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They’ve already lived their lives.

~ Edmund White

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

~ David Alan Grier

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

~ Billy Corgan

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

~ Billy Corgan

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

~ Marvin Davis

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

~ Hume Cronyn

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

~ Richard Rogers

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

~ Brian Sibley