Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.
There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
I always think that age is a natural progression, and I'm ready for it. Whatever. I'm going to be the best 85-year-old that I can be if I'm still around.
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.
I've never worried about age.
Hiding my age won't make me younger. It would be stupid to not accept the fact.
The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
When I was younger, 15 years or 20 years seemed like a really long time. But, as you journey though life, you don't realise where the years disappear.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
In a year's time, he's a year older.
Honestly, I didn't realize it - all of a sudden, I was 90. The years skipped by quickly. When it happened, I said, 'Where did the time go?'
I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.
