Dick Dale Quotes

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

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

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

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

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

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

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

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

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

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

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.

Old age is the verdict of life.

I am too old to think.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.