Geoffrey Rush Quotes

It sucks getting old.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

Getting older is hard.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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

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

I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

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

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

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

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.

As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.