Bari Weiss Quotes

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

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

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Even my stuntman is old.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

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 promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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.

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

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

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.'

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

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.