Loss of Youth Quotes

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.

I turned 40, and things started to go south.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

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.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

I’m not young anymore. I don’t wanna start over again.