Wallace Stegner Quotes

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

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.

We're not getting any younger.

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

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

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.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

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

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

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

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

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

You can't get old without living.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

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.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.