Growing Old Quotes

Growing old is not growing up.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

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.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

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.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

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.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

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.

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)!

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

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.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

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.

Nature abhors the old.

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.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

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.

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.

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

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

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.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

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.

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

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

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.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

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.

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

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.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

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.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.