Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Being seventy is not a sin.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

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 people are often impatient, but for what?

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

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

Being old is such a treat!

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

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

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

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

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

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

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

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.