Harry Shearer Quotes

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

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

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

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

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

Nobody stays young forever.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

Time moves on for everyone.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

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

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

We're not getting any younger.

Old age is the verdict of life.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.