Leonard Cohen Quotes

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

I feel old.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

It makes me look so old.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

The only time I ever think about getting old is when I look in the mirror. I feel pretty good about it, actually.

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

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.