Annie Lennox Quotes

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

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

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

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

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

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

Turns out I'm getting old.

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

I kind of spooked myself about getting older. It's not that bad really.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.