201 Movie Quotes about Aging (+ Sound Clips) - page 13

Updated: Dec 31, 2025

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

121 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.

Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson; Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

122 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)

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

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray; Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

124 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)

125 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)

126 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)

127 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.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield's Babes and Bullets (1989)

128 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)

129 The way I figure it is he's found a way to renew his energy and keep himself from getting older.

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

130 Do I look old? -You? Nah. You should see some of the old geezers that come into that crummy bar.

Robert Lansing as Dr. Scott Nelson in 4D Man (1959)

201 Movie Quotes about Aging (+ Sound Clips) - page 13

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