Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

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

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

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 don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

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

You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.

You have to embrace getting older.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

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

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

You either decide to age gracefully or not to age. I'm definitely the latter.