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It takes an incredible courage to come back in the circle. To start training again. It's much harder than for anyone else because you know the path you must take. You know exactly what you are going to go through. All these sacrifices. All this suffering. You don't have to be ashamed of what you did, Thori. Quite the opposite. But it's over. [...] Your path ends here. You're not strong enough, and you know it. And nothing you will ever say or do will change anything about it. I know it all the better because I went through this way. I too, have hit that wall. That unsurmountable wall that stands in your way now. And you can hit your head on it as long as you want, there is nothing you can change to the fact that it's here... and that once, for others, you were that wall. But it's over. It's all over.
"Look at me, Ravage. I'm old. Old and weak. Their poison makes me brittle, but even at full strength I'm long past my prime. My spark flickers when once it flared, and this body... oh, this nonsense body. It doesn't graft to the spark like the others. There's no purchase. No bite."
— Megatron, Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
Film — Live-Action
Diana: You know you can't do this forever.
Bruce: I can barely do it now.
Bruce: I can barely do it now.
"God, I hate getting old."
— Allan Quatermain, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
"I'm too old for this shit."
I'm old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it...but I'm beginning to feel it, in my heart.
"Is it possible that we two — you and I — have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefulness?"
Music
My mind's fuckin' blown
The future is amazing, I feel so fuckin' old
I bet you clone your pets and ride a hoverboard to work,
I used a folding map to find the juice place in the first!
The future is amazing, I feel so fuckin' old
I bet you clone your pets and ride a hoverboard to work,
I used a folding map to find the juice place in the first!
— Aesop Rock, "Lotta Years"
Video Games
Deadshot: You know, we're both getting too old for this.
Batman: But we both have a job to do.
Deadshot: Good thing we're professionals.
Batman: But we both have a job to do.
Deadshot: Good thing we're professionals.
"I'm getting too old for this ghost-catching tomfoolery."
— Professor E. Gadd, Luigi's Mansion
Shulk: I don't relish getting old. Age saps my courage.
Riku: That perfectly correct. Leaping Blade-first into thick of fray is game best left to young and reckless.
Riku: That perfectly correct. Leaping Blade-first into thick of fray is game best left to young and reckless.
Western Animation
Opal: Aren't you coming back to Republic City with us, Grandma?
Toph: No, my fighting days are over. Don't tell Korra, but my back is killing me now. This is why you didn't see Katara messing with that civil war nonsense. At some point, you gotta leave it to the kids.
Toph: No, my fighting days are over. Don't tell Korra, but my back is killing me now. This is why you didn't see Katara messing with that civil war nonsense. At some point, you gotta leave it to the kids.
