181 Movie Quotes about Aging (Sound Clips) - page 12

Last updated on: September 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about aging, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

111 It is too late for me, son.

James Earl Jones as Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

112 No! It's my birthday. -What, again? Heavens to Murgatroyd. How many times were you born? You must have a strong union.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

113 What do you think of the children? -The children? I don't recognize them. They've grown so old. -I tried to stop them, to keep them just as they were when you left, but they got away from me.

Quote from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

114 As I grow old, this picture will remain always young. If it were only the other way. If it were I who was always to be young and the picture that was to grow old.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

115 Why was he unhappy? -Perhaps because he felt his youth slipping away from him.

Quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

116 I wish you would tell me how to become young again. -Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days? -A great many, I fear. -Then commit them over again. To regain one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

117 To get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

118 I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that have been dust for over 50 years. That was me.

Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989)

119 Old man gets passed over by younger man. Young man gets power, respect, glory. Old man gets older, bitter. Finally, in desperation, the old man gets rid of the one thing in his way: The young man.

Garfield in Garfield's Babes and Bullets (1989)

120 So, every time Scott goes through something, he uses up a month's, or maybe even a year's energy in a single second. -In that case, he ought to be pretty old by now. -That's right. But he isn't.

James Congdon as Dr. Tony Nelson in 4D Man (1959)