Nick Nolte Quotes

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

It sucks getting old.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

You get old, you slow down.

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

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

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.

We never thought we could ever get old.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.