Rowan Williams Quotes

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

Getting older is hard.

Old age is a woman's hell.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

It's really hard being old - it's horrible.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.

It sucks getting old.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

I am too old to think.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

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