39 Quotes About Getting-old

She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness......Remeber when the boys were all electric?

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I’m startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head.

He wanted to spend the rest of his life building Nora's Paris out of sugar cubes, brick by brick. He wanted a one-way ticket to 1920. He thought about Nora's idea of time travel. What a horrible kind of travel, that took you only forward into the terrifying future, constantly farther from whatever had once made you happy. Only maybe that wasn't what she'd meant. Maybe she meant the older you got, the more decades you had at your disposal to revisit with your eyes closed.

I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, "No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead.

I got this month's delivery bill today - you're practically living off pastries!""The pastries are easier on my teeth," Grandpa called after him with a smile."That wouldn't be an issue if you would get new teeth!" John's voice carried in from the kitchen.Grandpa pretended not to hear him. His memory might have gone to shit, but there were a few things about being old that he really enjoyed.

Birthdays are happy as a child, defeatist with age and joyful again at surviving another year.