Tom Stoppard Quotes

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

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

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

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

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.