William Butler Yeats Quotes

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

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

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening.

John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

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.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

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.

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.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

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

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.