George Wald Quotes

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

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'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.

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

Turns out I'm getting old.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

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

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

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.