181 Movie Quotes about Aging (Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 Yes. For 60 years, the Ring lay quiet in Bilbo's keeping, prolonging his life, delaying old age. But no longer, Frodo.

Quote from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

22 In six months she'll look like Grandma Moses.

Quote from Brazil (1985)

23 Look at those bloodshot eyes. Look at that face - ravaged, dissipated, evil. One of these mornings, you're gonna look in the mirror, and that's all, brother. The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

24 Sixty-five. I figured it out. That's how old she is. God, I hope I never live to be that old.

Jane Fonda as Gloria Beatty in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

25 But there are times when suddenly you realise you're nearer the end than the beginning. And you wonder. You ask yourself what the sum total of your life represents.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

26 Captain of a troop one day, every man's face turned towards you, lieutenants jump when I growl. Now, tomorrow I'll be glad if a blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.

John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

27 Well, if that's how you treat your poor old mother in the autumn years of her life, all I can say is, go ahead, be crucified! See if I care. I might have known...

Terry Jones in Monty Python's Life of Brian

28 I come into this world with pink cheeks, and a healthy pair of lungs, and a lot of big ideas. How am I going out of it? A bald head, blue tongue, and a saucer of warm milk with a pill in it.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

29 His head fell off. -His head fell off? -Yeah, he was pretty old.

Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber

30 Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Richard Evelyn Vernon as Slartibartfast in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy