Top 100 Quotes About Growing Old
#1. 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
#2. Lords of blue and Lords of gold,
Lords of wind and waters wild,
Lords of time that's growing old,
When will come the season mild?
When will come blue Madoc's child?
Madeleine L'Engle
#3. Know that sounds premature, but I won't date anyone again that I can't imagine growing old with.
Kristen Heitzmann
#4. I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.
Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?
David Nicholls
#5. Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
William Cowper
#7. That was the one advantage of growing old - it let you be nasty with impunity.
Jacob M. Appel
#9. Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?
Henri Nouwen
#10. No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
Sophocles
#11. 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
#12. I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go
cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
Ava Gardner
#13. Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.
Naomi Jackson
#14. The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
George Clooney
#15. 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
#16. We were all growing old, and the only thing we could count on anymore was each other. ( ... ) They were the people I loved, and it was their souls I carried around inside me.
Paul Auster
#17. Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add
Jenny kissed me!
Leigh Hunt
#19. Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
John Mellencamp
#20. The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
John James Audubon
#21. There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
Gautama Buddha
#22. To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
Michael Caine
#23. In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
Margaret Mead
#24. I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.
George Harrison
#25. Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.
Martha Ostenso
#26. The most important thing is growing old gracefully.
Audrey Hepburn
#28.
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
#29. The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
Stewart O'Nan
#31. 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
#32. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
Regina Brett
#33. I'm lucky yes I am don't argue I'm the luckiest bastard in the world. And: how wonderful it was to have before him the stretching, shady avenue of years, the prospect of growing old in the presence of her gentleness.
Salman Rushdie
#34. I went back to my thoughts of Lia. How could I tell her that I knew in my gut from almost the beginning that we were meant to be together? That I had seen myself growing old with her. That a gift I wasn't even sure she really possessed had told me her name long before I ever laid eyes on her.
Mary E. Pearson
#36. For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.
Sylvia Porter
#37. And then he understands: it's a loop, an endless loop of injured children, growing old but keeping their pain fresh and new, causing yet more injury and starting the whole cycle over again.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#38. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.
Gene Wolfe
#39. 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
#40. Growing old happens but growing up needn't happen
Margo Vader
#41. I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
Samuel Johnson
#42. 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
#43. Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.
Marty Rubin
#44. There was too much magic in the world to become bitter and jaded and growing up didn't have to mean growing old.
Lili Valente
#45. I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
Victor Borge
#46. Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
Philip Roth
#47. I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in my eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh;
I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
I'm growing careless of my dress;
I'm growing frugal of my gold;
I'm growing wise; I'm growing
yes,
I'm growing old.
John Godfrey Saxe
#48. Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy Graham
#49. The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
Virginia Woolf
#50. Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not.
Richard Russo
#51. 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
#52. When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#53. Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.
Jennifer Stone
#54. She could be happy growing old, moving among people when she wanted, but alone.
Lauren Groff
#55. I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.
Edward Furlong
#56. Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
Mark Twain
#57. Growing old is a 'losing' game. We lose hair, friends, memories, and also simple skills.
Vinayak Shrikhande
#58. A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles
#59. The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Ed Koch
#60. Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.
Gary Gulman
#61. Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad ...
Jean Rhys
#62. Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.
Leonard Cohen
#63. Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
Haruki Murakami
#64. His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body, the body of a half-wit, somebody was growing old, although he had not lived; somebody was maturing to a death that had no meaning at all.
Bruno Schulz
#65. 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
#66. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.
Pat Conroy
#67. 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
#68. Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Rowan Williams
#69. It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
Francis Ford Coppola
#70. The unending problem of growing old was not how he changed, but how things did.
Toni Morrison
#71. 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
#72. How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people ... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Robert McAfee Brown
#73. After 15 years living in Paris, I felt myself growing old and stagnant - similar to stagnant water sitting in a bowl; cats have a survival instinct not to drink this water. They can sense when it's old and may be carrying air-borne germs. After 15 years in Paris, I no longer felt drinkable.
Roman Payne
#74. Growing old seemed to be full of never-again moments.
Kaje Harper
#75. I don't think about growing old," she said.
"I know you don't. That's one of the things I admire about you, Alice. You have some kind of boundless faith in the future. You never give up."
"I suppose I'm an optimist.
Richard Yates
#76. I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.
Ingrid Bergman
#77. The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.
Craig Wilson
#78. There is no difference between growing old and living.
Laurenti Magesa
#80. I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles ... like Audrey Hepburn.
Natalie Imbruglia
#81. While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old.
Asli E. Perker
#82. I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.
Roy Peter Clark
#83. How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.
Cecelia Ahern
#84. Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it ...
David Bowie
#85. Maybe it's that the past exists purely inside me. ... I've never cared about growing old, but right now, I do, slightly. It's not just that you have so much less future, but you also lose so much of your past, one death at a time.
Katarina Bivald
#86. You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you.
Vivian Gornick
#87. Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.
Mercedes Lackey
#89. Growing old, overweight and fat is not inevitable.
Mark Dilworth
#90. 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
#91. When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
Lady Bird Johnson
#92. I turned on my heel and left her, exasperated that even as I worked my fingers to the bone to liberate women from our cloth chains, our minds remained as closed as ever to the possibility that we might deserve more than a husband, children, and growing old cooking sausage.
C.W. Gortner
#93. O Paradise, O Paradise! Who doth not crave for rest? Who would not see the happy land Where they that loved are blest? Refrain Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through In God's most holy sight. O Paradise, O Paradise, The world is growing old;
Theron Brown
#94. Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.
John Spence
#95. I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
George Wald
#96. If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#97. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
#98. Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.
Desmond Tutu
#99. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#100. Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.
Paul Leautaud
