Best Growing Old Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn’t you know that? We’re afraid of the weather, we’re afraid of powerful men, we’re afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we’re afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we’re even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

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.

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.

I’ve been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It’s something I’m apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

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.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

The compensation of growing old … was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained — at last! — the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence — the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it – women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

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.

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles… like Audrey Hepburn.

New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There’s something very front and center about being young.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous – a battered old roue – I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn’t have to opt out life. When I’m 50, I’ll prove it.