Richard Avedon Quotes

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

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

Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

nobody ever intends to be old.

Old age is life's parody.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

Getting older is hard.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.