Top 100 Growing Old Is Quotes
#1. The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)
Dan Carruthers
#4. Growing old is God's privilege to you ... you only can be compared to any antique and old wine ... antiques are expensive and old wines taste best ... above all, it beats the alternative
DYING YOUNG. So cheer up and be grateful that God is giving you that privilege.
Peekey
#5. Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative.
David Baldacci
#6. As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.
Lawrence Block
#7. Growing old is an unwinnable campaign. During this war we witness ugly scenes. Truths mutate to whims. Faith becomes cynical transactions between liars. Sacrifices turn out to be needless excesses. Heroes become old farts, and young farts become heroes. Ethics become logos on sports clothing.
David Mitchell
#8. Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.
Bob Monkhouse
#9. Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#10. One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Joseph Campbell
#11. The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#12. The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#13. The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
Ruth Rendell
#15. Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.
Groucho Marx
#16. Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting ... one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.
Sebastian Horsley
#18. Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
Kathe Kollwitz
#19. Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.
May Sarton
#21. Growing old is one of the ways the soul nudges itself into attention to the spiritual aspect of life. The body's changes teach us about fate, time, nature, mortality, and character. Aging forces us to decide what is important in life.
Thomas Moore
#22. The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
Judy Parfitt
#23. One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
E.W. Howe
#24. I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
Amy Grant
#25. To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
Michael Caine
#26.
There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time.
But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
Simone De Beauvoir
#27. Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#28. The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.
Carew Papritz
#29. Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.
E. M. Forster
#30. Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go.
Johnny Depp
#31. I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
Joanna Lumley
#33. The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.
Andre Maurois
#34. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
#35. The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.
Albert Einstein
#36. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.
Jonathan Hull
#37. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.
Pat Conroy
#38. I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
Ruth Rendell
#39. Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.
Gary Gulman
#40. Growing old is a 'losing' game. We lose hair, friends, memories, and also simple skills.
Vinayak Shrikhande
#41. Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.
Jennifer Stone
#42. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
Robert Browning
#43. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
H. Rider Haggard
#44. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
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The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
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Time, the infinity
has marked them ...
Muse
#45. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.
Hughes Oliphant Old
#46. Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying.
Raven Moore
#47. Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#48. Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
John Dos Passos
#49. The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.
William Hazlitt
#50. Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting.
David Joy
#51. You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#52. I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.
Will Leitch
#53. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Colette
#54. Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.
Srikumar Rao
#55. Life is a collection of experiences. To experience each moment fully and accept it is an art. The art of living gracefully and never growing 'old'.
Rashmi Bansal
#56. As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
Nicholas Hoult
#57. On the way home I remembered a bit of old folklore about how to boil a frog. You put it in cold water, then start turning up the heat. If you do it gradually, the frog is too stupid to jump out. I don't know if it's true or not, but I decided it was an excellent metaphor for growing old.
Stephen King
#58. Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.
Fay Weldon
#59. While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.
Stephen Richards
#60. That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#61. You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
Evan Esar
#63. She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!
Mary Ann Shaffer
#64. An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities.
Stephen King
#66. For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.
Mark Steyn
#67. My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.
Mike Greenberg
#68. Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
J.I. Packer
#69. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#70. Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth ... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Julie Burchill
#71. A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life ... whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.
Julia Child
#72. The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.
Beatrice Sparks
#73. No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.
Martti Ahtisaari
#74. If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
Thomas Sowell
#75. To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
#76. Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.
James Burnham
#77. Growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore
J.M. Barrie
#79. When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt.
Donna Lynn Hope
#80. One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#81. Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
#82. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.
Chris Evert
#83. But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
Robert Bridges
#84. Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity is scorned, immorality is laughed at in school - "God is old-fashioned!" What else can we expect but that thousands of our young people are growing up to be immoral?7
Billy Graham
#85. Ulysses Club (Australia) a social club for riders over 40, whose membership is dedicated to "growing old disgracefully", or
Stella Rheingold
#86. It is their constant carping that has really made them old. Age is but another step in the natural cycle of life. We are growing old from the moment of our birth.
Bertrice Small
#87. The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
Josh Billings
#88. When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
Elsie De Wolfe
#89. My heart is torn in tiny pieces scattered throughout the years. I exist in several places because you carry those pieces with you, wherever you go, whoever you choose to be, I'll be beside you in one form or another.
Moryah DeMott
#90. As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.
Gerad Adams
#91. The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.
Marty Rubin
#92. Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
George Clooney
#93. So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.
Herman Wouk
#94. The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#95. To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.
Michael Haneke
#96. Bea is the only good thing I've ever done in my life,' he said. 'Take care of her for me.'
My father went with him to the door and watched him walk away down Calle Santa Ana, with that sadness that softens men who are aware that they are growing old together.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#97. The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.
Barbara Walters
#98. If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy
