Jens Voigt Quotes

We're not getting any younger.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

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

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

I've elected to age gracefully.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

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

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

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

Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.

Nobody stays young forever.

nobody ever intends to be old.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.