“We live to work. Man was made to move. Without work we shall grow old quickly.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“That’s why growing old together is lovely. You have someone to complain to.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“One of the benefits of growing old—maybe the only benefit—is knowing more today than you did yesterday.” — Terri Osburn Copy Share Image
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying, and dying to me doesn't sound like all that much fun. — John Cougar Mellencamp Copy Share Image
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. — George Burns Copy Share Image
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“How does one keep from “growing old inside”? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to… — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
“But she was not a woman to be unhappy because she was growing old. Her happiness, like that of most of us,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
“To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Logotherapy, keeping in mind the essential transitoriness of human existence, is not pessimistic but rather activistic. To express this point figuratively we… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“If we were created from the very fiber of our birth parents' physical and emotional beings, don't you think our need to… — Sherrie Eldridge Copy Share Image
“Mark raised his eyebrows, ‘you don't know the half of it,’ he further mumbled, more to himself than in reply to Frankie.… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“There was some kind of cultural cause for the decline of the ancient world. It was neither corruption of public spirit nor… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“The last great escape. I was done gambling, done betting on a ship that would never come in. I would cash in… — Brian James Copy Share Image
“Continue to fill the underworld, and the ferryman's pockets, and don't even bother trying to wash away the blood of thousands that… — Laura M. Hughes Copy Share Image
Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Live for the gifts the fragrant-breasted Muses send, for the clear, the singing, lyre, my children. Old age freezes my body, once… — Sappho Copy Share Image
