"You know you're getting older when it feels…

“You know you’re getting older when it feels like the morning after, but there was no night before” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images.

“A SURVEY TO ESTABLISH IF YOUŹRE GETTING OLD: (...) You feel like the morning after, but there was no night before” was posted on the newsgroup uk.media.tv.sf.startrek on September 13, 2001. The saying possibly originated from a comic illustration of the “Maxine” character by John Wagner.

Google Groups: uk.media.tv.sf.startrek
OT: Something to take your mind off WTC
Lazza
9/13/01
Hi all,
I`m sure you are all shocked by the images from NYC, I know I am, so here is something to take your mind off it. I simply had to share this with you, I laughed until I cried:

A SURVEY TO ESTABLISH IF YOUŹRE GETTING OLD:
Everything hurts; what doesn`t hurt doesn`t work.
The gleam in your eye is the sun shining on your glasses.
You feel like the morning after, but there was no night before.

11 July 2006, The Advertiser (Adelaide, Australia), “Mouthing Off” by Marty Smith, pg. 18:
Ageing: You know you’re getting old when you feel like the morning after but there was no night before

Twitter
geraldine coleman
@bluemoon5
you know youe getting old when you feel like the morning after but there was no night before #BSB
12:20 PM · Jun 12, 2009·Twitter Web Client

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Michel Lavache
@BigMikey79
You know you’re old when it feels like the morning after, but there was no night before.. smh
3:59 PM · Aug 3, 2010·Twitter Web Client

Google Books
Why Me: Tragedy, Comedy, Love and Adventure
By John Bolstridge
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse UK Ltd.
2013
Pg. 211:
“You know when you’re getting old, when you feel like the morning after. But there was no night before.”

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The Real Sassy
@TheRealSassy1
You know you’re getting older when it feels like the morning after, but there was no night before.
1:15 PM · Feb 20, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

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Alan Elwell
@elwell_alan
You know your getting old
When it feels like the morning after
But there was no night before
5:03 AM · Mar 2, 2020·Twitter for iPhone