“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Gabriel García Márquez 218
Colombian writer 1927–2014Related quotes
“You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?”
"About ninety."
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 15
“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”
Quoted in This Week magazine, 15 May 1960 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/167723755.html
“The problem isn't how you feel, it's that you don't feel SAFE to feel how you feel.”
“Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film.”
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amour-2013 of Amour (9 January 2013)
Reviews, Four star reviews
Context: Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film. … This is now. We are filled with optimism and expectation. Why would we want to see such a film, however brilliantly it has been made? I think it's because a film like Amour has a lesson for us that only the cinema can teach: the cinema, with its heedless ability to leap across time and transcend lives and dramatize what it means to be a member of humankind's eternal audience.
“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel.”
Fiction, Permutation City (1993)
“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”