Phillip Schofield Quotes

We're not getting any younger.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

I don't like ageing, I don't like being older, time is going too fast, and life is like a train running at high speed. I have a real problem with it.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time's up?

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

We can't get our youth back.

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

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

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.

The older I get, as well, bloody hell - time's running out. I just feel, jeez, there's so much to do. I'm not going to try to change the planet but make changes just in a small way.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.