Growing Old Quotes

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

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world’s perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Time stops when you are in love, even as you age.

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them...

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

Isn't it weird how people grow up when you're not looking?

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend.

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Life is so magnificent! How can I grow old?

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

We live to work.Man was made to move.Without work we shall grow old quickly.

I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.

The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.

But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.