Aging Quotes

1128 quotes by 787 authors

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning. — George Sand
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were… — Albert Einstein
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my… — Annie Dillard
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. — Phyllis Diller
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
You know â€” we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We… — Kurt Vonnegut
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had? — Arthur Ashe
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need… — Stephen Chbosky
Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every… — Alan Moore
I always think that Iâ€™m still this 13-year old boy that doesnâ€™t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking… — Richard Linklater
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a… — Portia de Rossi
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. — Haruki Murakami
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but… — Tom Wolfe
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the… — Stephenie Meyer
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful â€” there are far too many children. — Marguerite Yourcenar
How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?â€ Celia asks after a while. â€œVery carefully,â€ Marco answers. — Erin Morgenstern
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before… — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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