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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie De Wolfe

There is no difference between growing old and living. — Laurenti Magesa

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old. — Marty Rubin

Growing old is a 'losing' game. We lose hair, friends, memories, and also simple skills. — Vinayak Shrikhande

The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life! — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Growing old is so darn unappealing until you consider the alternative. — David Baldacci

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky. — Groucho Marx

Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting. — David Joy

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old? — Stewart O'Nan

Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying. — Raven Moore

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us. — Ashton Applewhite

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up. — Herman Wouk

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it. — Munia Khan

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her — John Green

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. — Srikumar Rao

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities. — Stephen King

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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

My mother ... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. — Jodi Picoult

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30. — E. M. Forster

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. — Carroll Bryant

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone. — Eva Figes

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph — Munia Khan

Growing old is not growing up. — Douglas Horton

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. — Mark Twain

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. — Pat Conroy

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold? — Frederick William Faber

Life is so magnificent! How can I grow old? — Debasish Mridha

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. — Colette

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting ... one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional. — Sebastian Horsley

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. — Ruth Rendell

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. — Euripides

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth ... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. — Julie Burchill

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart. — George Clooney

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

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep. — Dexter Palmer

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly? — Henri Nouwen

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. — Kathe Kollwitz

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face. — Mercedes Lackey

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

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger. — Debasish Mridha

The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie) — Dan Carruthers

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think. — Will Leitch

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. — Josh Billings

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. — George Wald

Growing old, overweight and fat is not inevitable. — Mark Dilworth

One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough. — Ignazio Silone

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. — Robert Browning

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

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. — Kenny Rogers

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

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged. — Jennifer Stone

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

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old? — Megan Shepherd

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. — Ruth Rendell

Growing old is not for sissies. — Emilie Richards

Ulysses Club (Australia) a social club for riders over 40, whose membership is dedicated to "growing old disgracefully", or — Stella Rheingold

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. — Malcolm Cowley

The most important thing is growing old gracefully. — Audrey Hepburn

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age. — E.W. Howe

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again. — Gary Gulman

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? — Jonathan Safran Foer

When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt. — Donna Lynn Hope

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. — Gail Sheehy

Life is a collection of experiences. To experience each moment fully and accept it is an art. The art of living gracefully and never growing 'old'. — Rashmi Bansal

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. — Joseph Campbell

The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to. — Carew Papritz

Growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore — J.M. Barrie