Ingrid Bergman Quotes

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

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

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

You have to embrace getting older.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

nobody ever intends to be old.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.