Stephen Colbert Quotes

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

I thought, 'If I make 35, it'll be okay,' and then at 40, I got scared, and now that I'm 81, I'm scared to death.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Getting older is not nice for anyone, not for men, not for women, and even more difficult for people who depend on their physical appearance. But it's not a drama. I know some people who are much more stressed than I am. And also, I live in Europe; I think it would be much more difficult if I lived in America.

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.