Audrey Hepburn Quotes

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

I've never been scared of aging.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

You have to embrace getting older.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Few people know how to be old.

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

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Growing old is not growing up.

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