Bette Davis Quotes

At my age flowers scare me.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

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

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

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.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

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

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

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

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

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

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

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

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

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