Dan Deacon Quotes

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

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.

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

You get old, you slow down.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

It sucks getting old.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

The only thing some people do is get older.

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

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

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 don't think I've aged gracefully.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Getting older is hard.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

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

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

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

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

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

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

I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.