Charles Durning Quotes

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

I feel a lot older than I am.

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

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.

I think I was born aged about 86.

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

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

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

I've always looked old for my age.

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

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

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.