Henry Reed Quotes

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

We're not getting any younger.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

In a year's time, he's a year older.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

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

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.