Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

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.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

Turns out I'm getting old.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

Nobody stays young forever.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

I feel a bit weird about turning 40. It makes you feel like you've passed over on to the other side a bit.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.