Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.