Quotes About Growing Older

#1. I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

Angelina Jolie

#3. In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older ... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.

Holly Hunter

#4. To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Regina Brett

#5. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. College kids seem to look younger with every passing year. It's one of the hazards of growing older.

J. A. Jance

#7. Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

Ingmar Bergman

#8. Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. I'm growing older, but not up.

Jimmy Buffett

#10. 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

#11. I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I never had before that living on this earth, growing older, and growing up in the true sense of the word is really about learning how to let go.

Katrina Kenison

#12. Want to forget that you're growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet.

Toni Sorenson

#13. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)

Victoria Moran

#14. Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Heather Brewer

#15. For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.

Nigel Barker

#16. One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#17. There's nothing you can do about growing older, and I should know. But growing up? That's entirely at your own discretion.

Nick Moseley

#18. Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

Anna Godbersen

#19. So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

Polly Toynbee

#20. Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

Henry Rollins

#21. Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up.

Michael Marshall Smith

#22. There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Cary Grant

#23. I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Ian Anderson

#24. In growing older, we become our parents.

Julien Green

#25. That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Paulo Coelho

#26. Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

Demi Moore

#27. You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now.

J. Ellsworth Kalas

#28. Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Ann Landers

#29. The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Pete Townshend

#30. I've always feared growing older because I thought I'd run out of interests, but what this project has taught me is that I've barely scratched the surface of what I could try next.

Jen Lancaster

#31. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. That's one of the few good points of growing older

Haruki Murakami

#32. I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Isabella Rossellini

#33. I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

Denise Duhamel

#34. It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Hector Hugh Munro

#35. Keep your options open, his parents told him, but they didn't tell him that growing older is about your options shutting down, one by one.

Lauren Beukes

#36. If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Bob Geldof

#37. Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

Louise Hay

#38. Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

Tristan Prettyman

#39. I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

Sharon Stone

#40. I even had this idea that the knife stopped working, that after a certain time it just stops working for you, when your number is up. I thought maybe it was me who had done it. That I killed him just by growing older, and being ready to replace him.

Kendare Blake

#41. In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

Jane Hirshfield

#42. growing older is all about learning and passing it on, otherwise there is no reason for biological evolution to keep us alive after our reproductive years are over.

Twinkle Khanna

#43. In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Honore De Balzac

#44. 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

#45. Growing older is to grow more wicked.

Frank Herbert

#46. One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Sebastian Horsley

#47. It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

Peter Bofinger

#48. Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.

Elizabeth Harrower

#49. Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

Li Bai

#50. 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

#51. The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Barbara Delinsky

#52. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Elisabeth Elliot

#53. The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.

Julian Fellowes

#54. Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology ...

Susan Sontag

#55. I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Charles Kuralt

#56. I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

Meryl Streep

#57. Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Kingsley Amis

#58. The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Gladys Taber

#59. Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

Antonio Banderas

#60. Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think.

Dane DeHaan

#61. Growing older is certain; growing wiser is harder and optional.

Debasish Mridha

#62. I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

Penelope Cruz

#63. Don't regret growing older ... remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

James Simpson

#64. Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

Halle Berry

#65. It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston

#66. In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

Christian Bale

#67. When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

Alison Moyet

#68. One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.

Mercedes Lackey

#69. Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She

Gustave Flaubert

#70. Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana.

Ashton Irwin

#71. And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

Diana Gabaldon

#72. Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Kenny Rogers

#73. There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.

Harrison Ford

#74. Diane, what does it mean when you know you're feeling something but you don't know what that feeling is?" Diane considered this seriously for a long time. "It means you're growing older." "I never grow older." "I guess we all thought that once.

Joseph Fink

#75. The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Bob Hope

#76. Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

Munia Khan

#77. I like every part of growing older except what happens to your feet.
Written by Avis DeVoto to Julia Child in As Always, Julia

Joan Reardon

#78. Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.

Isabella Rossellini

#79. I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#80. 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

#81. There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#82. O Day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen.

Wang Wei

#83. In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old woman.

Abigail George

#84. I don't know when Tiger Lily stopped growing older; I can't pinpoint that moment. But I do know I never saw her visibly age beyond the days when she was with Peter. I like to think her growing stopped the day they were on the plateau, watching the horses.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#85. The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

Ashton Applewhite

#86. I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

Ellen DeGeneres

#87. One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.

Ron Brackin

#88. Well, I'm not advocating it," I said. "I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.

John Boyne

#89. 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

#90. With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.

Amanda L. Moritz

#91. The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

Kate Mosse

#92. Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.

Jessie Burton

#93. As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.

Charles Dickens

#94. Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.

Debasish Mridha

#95. One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

Liz Smith

#96. Everyone I meet now is at least ten years younger than me. I feel like Rip van Winkle with a bald spot.

Jaffe Cohen

#97. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger

#98. 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

#99. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...

Maud Hart Lovelace

#100. You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

Jean Thompson