Tracey Emin Quotes

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

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

I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.

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.

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

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

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

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

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

Of course, no one wants to get older.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

I suppose if your parents die in their 50s and you are approaching 50, you see that you are definitely not in the first half of your life any more.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it."

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.