Growing Old Quotes - Page 6

• By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Rambling, Growing

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

  Ingmar Bergman

  Climbing, Mountain, Needs

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• The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

  Frederick William Faber

  Love Is, World, Growing

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Hymn Book of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri”, p.33

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• The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

  Ben Folds

  Reality, Waiting, Growing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Years, Worry, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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• Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

  May Sarton

  Frustration, Age, Growing

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

  Daniel Johnston

  Artist, Trying, Stories

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• I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Aquarius, Age, Growing

  Roy Peter Clark (2010). “The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

  Robert Bridges

  Change, Growing, Truth Is

  'So sweet love seemed' (1894)

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• In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Sweet, Children

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.293, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Growing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me!

  Leigh Hunt

  Sweet, Kissing, Jumping

  "Rondeau" l. 1 (1838)

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• 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 broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

  Jean Rhys

  Wings, Eagles, Broken

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• Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

  Johnny Depp

  Growing Up, Believe, Childhood

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• Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Song, Dying, Age

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2008). “Early Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Growing, Courses, Hard

  Haruki Murakami (1987). “風の歌を聴け”

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• One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

  Joseph Campbell

  Growing, Moments, Great Things

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time, Growing, Planets

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Age, Relief, Realization

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1938). “Dithers and Jitters”

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

  Kenny Rogers

  Upset, Age, Growing

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• The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

  George Orwell

  Children, Real, Thinking

  George Orwell (2017). “The Collected Non-Fiction”, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Flower, June

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

  Susan Sontag

  Imagination, Growing, Disease

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• Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Hair, Ego, Would Be

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