Anthony Trollope Quotes

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

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

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.