Getting Old Inspirational Quotes

#1. There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard ... obscure the beauty.

Sara Zarr

#2. One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Takuan Soho

#3. For death begins with life's first breath,
And life begins at touch of death.

William Arthur Dunkerley

#4. One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

Malcolm Forbes

#5. It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

Mark E. Smith

#6. If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

Martin Parr

#7. There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

David Bowie

#8. There is a deep-seated reason why intelligent, sensible people suddenly recoil from objective evidence when the topic turns to evolution. I think the fear of death has a lot to do with it.

Bill Nye

#9. Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger.

Debasish Mridha

#10. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.

Stormie O'martian

#11. You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger.

Debasish Mridha

#12. You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#13. There are very few personal problems that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.

Darynda Jones

#14. It wasn't like that, darlin'." [Darcy] said quickly. "I swear on my mother's soul it wasn't!"
Bronte bit her lip, trying not to smile. "Your mother is still living, is she not?"
Darcy grinned sheepishly. "Yes, but ... just the same.

Jaide Fox

#15. Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

Debasish Mridha

#16. The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Margaret Heffernan

#17. Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct.

Gary Chapman

#18. Getting older is inevitable--being old is a choice.

Cheryl L. Ilov

#19. Things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and that's not the kind of heart I want to have.

Lisa Wingate

#20. King John was not a good man -
He had his little ways.
And sometimes no one spoke to him
For days and days and days.

A.A. Milne

#21. People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Paul Simon