Browsing Topic Best Growing Old Quotes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Live your life and forget your age.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.

One of the few compensations for growing old is accumulating memories and sharing them with others.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I don’t mind growing old. I’m just not used to it.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Love your parents. We are so busy growing up we often forget they are also growing old.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Maturity isn’t a product of growing older. It’s a product of growing wiser.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.

Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.

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.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

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

Growing old is compulsory – growing up is optional.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

I can remember how I sang – a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You’re wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It’s an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That’s just the nature of growing older.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can’t reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who’s not here and start worrying about who is.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

Old age is no place for sissies.

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

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.

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.