Top 74 We All Grow Old Quotes
#1. Books measure time in both moments and years.
We all grow old but the stories never will.
R.M. Engelhardt
#2. We both young what made you grow younger."
"The music?"
He nodded and whispered. "You don't have to go back to being old. We'll practice all the time. We'll record albums and we'll tour.
David Agranoff
#3. I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.
Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.
Theodore Dalrymple
#4. Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
Oscar Wilde
#5. Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner
Daniel Johns
#6. Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.
Rumi
#7. It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.
Peter Cundall
#8. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.
Cecelia Ahern
#9. When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
Robert Rodriguez
#10. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
#11. If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
E.W. Howe
#12. My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.
Not everybody does.
Brian K. Vaughan
#13. 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
#14. You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.
Roger Moore
#15. I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
Steve Coogan
#16. She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks - her currency in this world - and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.
Bret Easton Ellis
#17. Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful.
- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#18. That is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die.
Stieg Larsson
#19. We're just like the antiques. We grow old and get scarred and beat up along the way, and the only question becomes whether we're going to make it until we realize what we already have is valuable." --Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
Lynda Rutledge
#20. Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?
Sylvia Day
#21. How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I'd grow old with that we won't have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?
Nicole Ireland
#22. Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
#23. 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
#24. The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.
Oscar Romero
#25. This is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration.
Stieg Larsson
#26. The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.
Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.
Aaron Shepard
#27. We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.
Laura Linney
#28. Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end.
How prettily Lorelei Lee sang these mordant lyrics!
Joyce Carol Oates
#30. Honour to the immortal dead, that great ... company of shining souls who gave their youth that the world might grow old in peace.
- Louise N. Parter
Joseph C. Banks
#31. This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe the [United] States are working , and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.
John Bright
#32. How much of our earth has been wet by blood because of jealousy! And at the end of life, what does it all matter? We grow old and the young look at us and can never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love.
Bernard Cornwell
#33. So few things we need to know.
And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack.
Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beauty
of giving it all up. Like walking steadfast
in the rhythms, winter light and summer dark.
And the time for cutting furrows and the dance
Robert Hass
#34. A Drinking Song Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh.
W.B.Yeats
#35. You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight of a man's hip, because dear God, someone might think of sex. And while we all hope our kids grow up to have sex, we do not hope they grow up to shoot someone in the face.
Shonda Rhimes
#36. Hopefully you'll grow old enough to realize that Achilles was a gorydamn fool. And we're fools all the more for not realizing he wasn't Homer's hero. He was warning.
Pierce Brown
#37. The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max Muller
#38. We all at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.
Paulo Coelho
#39. 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
#41. I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
Robert Wyatt
#42. I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
Neil Young
#43. The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes
#45. I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
Patti Smith
#46. Some people discard their childhood like an old hat.
They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid.
They used to be kids, then they became adults - but what are they now?
Only those who grow up but continue to be children are humans.
Erick Kastner
#47. Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
James Truslow Adams
#48. One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.
Maurice Chevalier
#49. Dose who love deep never grow old ... Dey may die of age, but dey die young.
Arthur Wing Pinero
#50. Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them ... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
D.H. Lawrence
#52. 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
#53. There are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.
Inez Haynes Irwin
#54. Sometimes friendships go bad, she tells herself. Relationships soften and rot like old fruit. They have their time, and then they shrivel and grow putrid. She
Jennie Fields
#55. Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
Edmund Burke
#56. It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too old to believe either.
Elle Alexander
#57. When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to
Lorraine Heath
#58. I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
David Malouf
#59. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
Lord Chesterfield
#60. The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
Nikki Giovanni
#61. Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.
Diane Chamberlain
#62. Goddamn it. You'll never be without me. We're going to grow old together. Die together. I'm not going to live a single day without you.
Sylvia Day
#63. We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking
Finis Mitchell
#64. Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.
Lewis Mumford
#65. Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
Rudyard Kipling
#66. The men in the nearby village fear us, thinking we are witches. Women who live without men - especially old women who grow herbs, heal the sick, and befriend wild animals - are always suspect.
Pat Murphy
#67. The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. And you are alive, and back with me here. By the great God of heaven, I have you back with me. What should I fear now?
Mary Stewart
#69. That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.
Nainoa Thompson
#70. I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.
Gilda Radner
#71. I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
Mattie Stepanek
#72. To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes
we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffer
#73. When I grew older, I thought I would become an even more special person. But, it's not true. I eat more and I know a lot more things but I just become more pathetic. Is this what it's like to grow old?
Cheon Eunbi
#74. How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs
