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Quotes About Ageing

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
~ Ludovico Ariosto
Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
~ Kate Mulgrew
Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
~ Shirley Manson
She was a woman in her thirties with sun-damaged skin and an opt-out approach to fashion.
~ Susan Juby
i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
~ Charles Bukowski
Youth, you son of a bitch, where did you go?
~ Charles Bukowski
in the most decent sometimes sun there is the softsmoke feeling from urns and the canned sound of old battleplanes and if you go inside and run your finger along the window ledge you'll find dirt, maybe even earth. and if you look out the window there will be the day, and as you get older you'll keep looking keep looking sucking your tongue in a little ah ah no no maybe some do it naturally some obscenely everywhere.
~ Charles Bukowski
I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.
~ Essie Davis
I've got very little grey hair. It's to do with the genes. My mother and father were the same.
~ Prunella Scales
Abandon your fear. Look forward. Move forward and never stop. You'll age if you pull back. You'll die if you hesitate. -Zangetsu
~ Tite Kubo
When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
~ Tom Robbins
I don't want to get old. I want to stay young forever. Wouldn't that be great?
~ Koji Suzuki
I'm eighty-two, can you believe it?" She's actually ageless, given that her purple face is stretched tighter than an eggplant. "So what did you have done?" I ask, unable to help myself. "The whole package," she says. "Got my eyelids done, some Botox, a little filler, chin implant, cheekbones, got my lips done, neck lift, breast implants, tummy tuck, ass lift.
~ Kristan Higgins
You don't grow old, you become old by not growing.
~ Caroline Bird
The trick is growing up without growing old.
~ Casey Stengel
Taking his arm, Pylos led him inside. In his youth, Cressen had walked briskly, but he was not far from his eightieth name day now, and his legs were frail and unsteady. Two years
~ George R.R. Martin
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
~ George Sand
One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.
~ Melvin Helitzer
At what age , he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful solution, but then ageing is not a graceful bussines.
~ J.M. Coetzee
As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
~ Jack Kerouac
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
~ Brad Pitt
I don't like ageing, I don't like being older, time is going too fast, and life is like a train running at high speed. I have a real problem with it.
~ Phillip Schofield
I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
The ageing process,' said Bryant, pausing at the top of the stairs. 'It's killing me. Hang on a minute, I have to get my breath back. You know the things I hate most about getting old? Kneeling down and wondering if I'll ever get back up again. Never leaving the house without having to pee first. Old people tell me about their illnesses and assume I care. Your lungs turn into deflated balloons, your feet hurt all the time. Look at me—I look like a bald bat.
~ Christopher Fowler