Growing Old Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

  Lawrence Block

  Mother, Years, Giving

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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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• the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

  Gladys Taber

  Real, Moving, Steps

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Growing, Studs, Eternal

  "The Vampire Diaries: Family Ties". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

  Ava Gardner

  Scotch, Glasses, Hands

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• Growing older doesnt bother me.

  Angie Dickinson

  Growing, Bother, Growing Older

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  There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

  Cary Grant

  Thinking, Unhappy, Growing

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and  could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

  Anne Shirley

  Years, Growing, Months

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• Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

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

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• Nature abhors the old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Old Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.159, Penguin

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• 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 may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Growing Up, Animal

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• I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

  Beverly Johnson

  Ideas, Age, Growing

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• To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Old Man, Homeland

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

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• Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

  Martha Ostenso

  Death, Drawing, Independence

  Martha Ostenso (1934). “The White Reef”, New York, Dodd

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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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• One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

  Betty White

  Years, Age, Growing

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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• You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Age, Growing

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield (1954). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 November, 1785 to 22 June, 1786”

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• In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Growing, Firsts

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