Bette Midler Quotes

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

When people get older, they get bitter or get cute.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.

As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.

I softened in my old age.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

I grow more intense as I age.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?