Growing Old Quotes

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.

My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

Growing old is not growing up.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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 yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Trans kids are living in the future in a way. When I was growing up, "transgender" wasn't even a word. It wasn't used. Just the naming of something that's invisible, or was thought of as shameful or different - giving it a name that's not a slur is powerful. It's still a little hard to imagine what it might look like growing older as a trans man, but I think that's going to change for the next generation. For trans kids growing up, that visual bridge towards their future selves is starting to develop in conjunction with this trans media wave we're in.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

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 merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

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 sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.