Joan Rivers Quotes

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

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.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

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

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

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

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

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

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.