Growing Old Quotes

173 Growing Old quotes by 149 unique authors

I'm growing old, I delight in the past. — Henri Matisse
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we… — Rowan Williams
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds. — Matsuo Basho
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a… — Yann Martel
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much… — Cecelia Ahern
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too.… — Simone de Beauvoir
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in… — Robert Browning
Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him… — Emily Dickinson
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me… — Jonathan Safran Foer
and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old? — Stewart O'Nan
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. — Philip Roth
I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a… — Johnny Depp
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put… — Leigh Hunt
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one… — Jean Rhys
Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them -… — Johnny Depp
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. — Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde
Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift. — Haruki Murakami
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. — Joseph Campbell
Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it… — Paulo Coelho

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