Agnes Repplier Quotes

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

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

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I think I was born aged about 86.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.