Maura Tierney Quotes

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

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

Some feel old at 45.

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.

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

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.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

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

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

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

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.