“We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.”
Growing older changes how we see everything — time, love, ambition, regret. These quotes capture the full arc of aging, from the stubborn optimism of youth to the hard-earned clarity that only comes with years behind you. Whether you are twenty and curious or eighty and reflective, there is something here that will land.
“Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.”
“We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.”
“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”
“I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.”
“In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.”
“Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.”
“Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.”
“It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.”
“No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.”
“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
“One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.”
“Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.”
“I think I'm past the age of getting lost.”
“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”