Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

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

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Aging is a synonym for living.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

Getting older is a fact of life.

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

I used to love getting older.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

That's probably the only thing I am afraid of: time.

I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really.

When you get to a certain age any big change is hard to deal with.

The realization that I'm never going to run again, the feeling through my hair when you run... you're still a kid. You still have so much life to live.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.