I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.
It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.
One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.
As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.
You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.
The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.
I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.
Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.
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.
As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.
Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.
Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.
I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors.
I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage.
If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?
You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.
You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.
The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
It's weird how people hate getting older.
I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.
