Nora Ephron Quotes

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.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.

One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

When you become senile, you won't know it.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.

I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I'm quite forgetful.

I have always been a little bit forgetful.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

When the age is in, the wit is out

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!