Patricia Cornwell Quotes

I'm going bald. I'm having a major problem with it.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It started getting thinner and it started falling out. I hit 30, and I literally felt like I was balding!

My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

I remember the day I saw my hair was thinning. I don't remember caring much. I don't care. It's just hair. It never bothered me much. I was pretty young, too. And it happened and is happening very slowly. I have a feeling dead people get really mad when we complain about losing hair.

What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.

I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.

Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

I think I am a little too old now.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

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.

The old men know when an old man dies.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.