Geoff Dyer Quotes

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

We're not getting any younger.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

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

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

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

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

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

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

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

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

Nobody stays young forever.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.