Growing Old Quotes - Page 8

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

  Susan Sontag

  Imagination, Growing, Disease

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• How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  People, Giving, Community

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• I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Eye, Laughing

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.34

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• Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Growing, Way

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sea, Names, Single Life

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• The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Block, Support

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

  Angelina Jolie

  Growing, Want, Exhausted

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

  Henry Rollins

  Needs, Growing, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

  Joanna Lumley

  Thinking, Growing, Miles

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

  Margaret Mead

  Country, People, Growing

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• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that.

  Laura Wasser

  Children, Believe, Commitment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Rhys Ernst

  Growing Up, Powerful, Kids

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

  George Harrison

  Regret, Believe, Silly

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

  Unknown

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• 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.

  Ian Anderson

  Ideas, Ordinary, Growing

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• To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

  Michael Caine

  Alternatives, Growing, Considering

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sick, Dying, World

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