Sophie Kinsella Quotes

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

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

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I feel old.

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

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Turns out I'm getting old.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.

You have to embrace getting older.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

I'm older than I was before when I was young.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.