Harold Kushner Quotes

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

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.

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

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

I've never been scared of aging.

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

You have to embrace getting older.

As you get older, there are going to be a few more challenges, but thankfully I'm still feeling good.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.