Quotes About Never Growing Old

#1. 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

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

Mercedes Lackey

#3. When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.

Cole Hauser

#4. A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Jane Austen

#5. Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?

Megan Shepherd

#6. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.

Gene Wolfe

#7. I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

Tony Dungy

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

Frederick William Faber

#12. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

Norman Rush

#14. The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

John Green

#15. 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

#16. Growing old seemed to be full of never-again moments.

Kaje Harper

#17. The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people
and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety.

Catherynne M Valente

#18. You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough
You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough

Lorde

#19. 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

#20. Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Ronald Reagan

#21. New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

Michel De Certeau

#22. How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.

Cecelia Ahern

#23. Never complain about growing old ... Some never have the privilege.

Mark Hart

#24. When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it's a privileged denied to many.' She glared at me and responded, 'spoken like a truly young idiot.

Dan Pearce

#25. I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

Dan Auerbach

#26. You're never too old to grow up.

Shirley Conran

#27. Never grow old, my little Briton. It really isn't worth the effort.

Richard Blake

#28. The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Ben Folds

#29. If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Gail Sheehy

#30. I would rather have died in your arms, Simon, than face a lifetime without you. All those endless years ... all those winters, summers ... a hundred seasons of wanting you and never having you. Growing old, while you stayed eternally young in my memories.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. Did you never wonder why the old books are so full of dragons chasing after maidens? The serpents think the girls are orphans, and long to get them away in a lair so that they may grow up strong and tall.

Catherynne M Valente

#32. You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

Kim Dong Hwa

#33. Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

Michel De Montaigne

#34. Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#35. All her old thoughts seemed as thin and ragged as a piece of knitting made and ripped out and made and ripped out again until all the threads were frayed, growing ever more worn, but never larger.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#36. How ironic that when they'd been married, she'd never thought of growing old with him.
Yet now, years after the annulment, she should think of it with the yearning of an exile, for
the homeland that had long ago evicted her.

Sherry Thomas