Morrie Schwartz Quotes

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

You have to embrace getting older.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

I have to say I don't mind getting older.

If it means being settled and content, getting older can be a relief.

Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm going to be a grandad in two months time, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.