Fay Weldon Quotes

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having a hard time and are ill.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Old age is the verdict of life.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

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!'

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.