Emily Levine Quotes

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

Aging is a synonym for living.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Few people know how to be old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

I feel old.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.