Anne Lamott Quotes

I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'

I'm not 20 anymore, and I feel it.

It sucks getting old.

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

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

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

You get old, you slow down.

I'm looking forward to getting fat and old.

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

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

It makes me look so old.

I don't look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

My face doesn't look the same way it did at 39. My body doesn't look the same way it did at 39.

I'm 38, and everyone is making a big deal out of it because I got a few gray hairs cropping in my sides.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

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

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.