“ The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now. Andrena Sawyer
“ Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. Phyllis Diller
“ Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear.Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little t… Armistead Maupin
“ I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom. Penn Jillette
“ Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old. Debasish Mridha
“ It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. Katherine Dunn
“ 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… John Banville
“ But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep. Dexter Palmer
“ HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION I am born as the sun, But then turn into the moon, As my blonde hairs turn Grayish-white and fallTo the ground, Only to be buried again, Then to be born again, Into a thou… Suzy Kassem
“ 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? Arctic Monkeys
“ Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live. Janet Turpin Myers
“ In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being. Anthony Powell
“ Getting old means getting lucky sometimes means sometimes you learn & along with other sweeter acquisitions you learn that ninetenths of what goes down is bullshit that there's just no way to be with… John Thomas Idlet
“ 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. Jennifer Egan
