Growing Old Quotes - Page 8

• The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

  John James Audubon

  Growing, May, Lasts

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.245, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Growing, Aging, Pleasure

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• Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
  From reveries so airy, from the toil
  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
  And growing old in drawing nothing up.

  William Cowper

  Drawing, Common Sense, Toil

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 187

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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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• 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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• 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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• Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

  Edith Head

  Growing, Today, Thanks

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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sight, Heartbreaking, World

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

  Dane DeHaan

  Life Changing, Thinking, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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