“We live to work. Man was made to move. Without work we shall grow old quickly.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
“While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old.” — Aslı E. Perker Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Growing old together, being wrinkled and cozy and warm at the same time. Knowing that after all the years that passed, some… — Idk 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
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 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
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
“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
“And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I’m not being self-pitying; it’s… — Phoef Sutton Copy Share Image
“..who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for an Eternity outside of Time, and alarm clocks fell on… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“This farmer has a rooster that is growing old, and the farmer decides it’s time to get a new rooster. So he… — Craig Alanson Copy Share Image
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The… — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
“A DESCRIPTION OF HAPPINESS IN KOBENHAVN All this windless day snow fell into the King's Garden where I walked, perfecting and growing… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Beth changed her ensemble five times that morning, switching out her shoes, her necklaces, her earrings. I understood. Had I owned more… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I suppose that there's quite a difference between growing old and growing up.” — Emory Sharplin Copy Share Image
There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
