Cate Blanchett Quotes

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

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

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

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

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.

There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

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

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

You get old, you slow down.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

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

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.