Anne Reid Quotes

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

'Miss Marple' enjoys every minute of her existence and is not worried about getting old.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life.

My life is the same, and I am at a beautiful stage at 88. I am as excited as I was in my 20s.

I'm not afraid to die. But I'm afraid to not live.

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.

You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

I'm talking about living life to its fullest.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

Old age ain't for sissies