39 Quotes About Getting-old

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

Oh youth, why did you leave me, to fend for myself against time?

What they write in rule books and how things really work are never the same. We all learn that as we get older.

All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young!

The face Isaac made when bonding with his aluminum toy would have made you smile. The innocence of it. It was one of those mind-lending activities that make us like people—like spying on someone playing the piano or solving a puzzle. Every person looks like a child when de-seeding a pomegranate. If you watch someone open a juice box, however old, you’ll see them young again—their soft, wondering face. It’s one of the most ephemeral beauties for the eyes to partake in.

You can tell you're getting old when the heat blast from your birthday cake candles feels hotter than the surface of the sun.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.