Jennifer Stone Quotes

You have to embrace getting older.

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

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

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

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

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

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.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

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

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.

It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

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

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

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

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

Old age is a shipwreck.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age.