Jonathan Evison Quotes

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.

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

I am in the prime of my senility.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

It sucks getting old.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

The old are in a second childhood.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

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

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

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Getting older is hard.