The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
My mum told me when I was young life doesn't come with instructions and I sat there all night wondering who teaches… — Daniel Starns Copy Share Image
“I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Growing up and growing old. Playing. Exploring. Like Pooh and Piglet. And then like the Famous Five. And then like Heidi and… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet,… — 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
“Don't suggest that we are growing old, my Lord. We have only bloomed; and a very nice bouquet we make with our… — Louisa May Alcott 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
“I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained --… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I would rather have died in your arms, Simon, than face a lifetime without you. All those endless years…all those winters, summers…a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“My heart is torn in tiny pieces scattered throughout the years. I exist in several places because you carry those pieces with… — Moryah DeMott Copy Share Image
“Like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach;… — Paulo Coelho 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
“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
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he… — George Clooney 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
For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, I used to make resolutions which imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was,… — André Gide 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
I'm getting on a bit, don't know what I'm going to do, no pension pot and the prospect of growing old in… — Bez 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 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
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is… — Gautama Buddha 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
“Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people and to remember what other people have done for you;… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because… — Vittorio Vandelli Copy Share Image
“Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the weaknesses and lonliness of… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Peter sighed into the water, and his breath sent a small circle of it into tiny ripples. "It seems cowardly, getting old.… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
