Henry Rollins Quotes

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

Getting older is hard.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

I think it’s a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system and run the risk of hurting the people who have been saving all their lives…. It may be a new idea but it is a dumb one.

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.

It's really hard being old - it's horrible.

When you're at the wrong end of your 70s, everything is a challenge.

Money is a hazard.

My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.

I'll try to be young mentally and physically as long as I can to play as many games as possible, but I know, at one point, it will start to be more difficult.

I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more.

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

My grandmother is 82, and some days she doesn't even put her teeth in.

My family were really poor.

The last time I was unemployed was 1989, and I've seen the research on retired people and how they feel about it. I'm definitely wired in a way that you wouldn't predict it would go wonderfully.