Nora Ephron Quotes

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.

You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I used to love getting older.

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

I learned from my past.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.