180 Quotes About Getting-older

youthit leaves you quickand it never comes back

When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of your wild thoughts and the untamed nature of your signature energy.

no narcissist can survive elderhood

Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.

There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

O, elixir of youth, thy name is hair dye.

One of the advantages to getting older, though: while you might not change all that much, you at least got to know yourself. The real you, minus the bullshit and wishful thinking.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.