Growing Old Quotes

173 Growing Old quotes by 149 unique authors

No one longs to live more than someone growing old. — Sophocles
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. — George Wald
I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do. — Melanie Laurent
For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to… — Cat Power
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. — Elizabeth Aston
Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of… — David Eddings
Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting. — August Strindberg
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember… — Henry Van Dyke
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. — Ruth Rendell
Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job. — Paul Leautaud
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,… — Samuel Johnson
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. — Ann Landers
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person… — Rajneesh
Nature abhors the old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase,… — Christiane Northrup
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out,… — Martha Gellhorn
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young. — Amy Grant
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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… — Francis Ford Coppola
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. — Euripides
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons. — Edith Head
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
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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