Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

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

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 like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

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

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

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

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

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

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

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

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Few people know how to be old.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

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

I like gettin' old.

I feel old.

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

Growing old is not growing up.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.