Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

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

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

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

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

Heavens, Mary, of course we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again.