Being Old Quotes

• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Birthday, Anniversary

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

  Will Rogers

  Beautiful, Young, Comfortable

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• But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

  John O'Hara

  Dumb, Use, Cant

  1940 Pal Joey, ch.1.

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• The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

  Stephen King

  Worry, Dying, Good Things

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

  Wolf Kahn

  Names, Age, Add

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• This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Eye, Men, Futility Of Life

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  I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Interesting, Feelings, Age

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• On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Nice, Comfort, Way

  "The Unexpurgated Code". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1975.

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• The mind doesn't know anything about age, your subconscious mind knows nothing about time or space. And so, I am hanging around young people all the time and I operate like they do. I don't think of myself as being old.

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Space, People

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Interview with David Savage, www.indexmagazine.com. 1996.

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• the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

  Maggie Scarf

  Country, Thinking, Land

  Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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• We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Pronouns, Wells

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.

  Dana Gould

  School, Jumping, Joy

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• One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

  Samuel Hall Lord

  Helping

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• Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

  Thierry Henry

  Scared, Sometimes, Young

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• I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mad

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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• I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

  Phil Elvrum

  Thinking, Trying, Kind

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dream, Mean, Your Boyfriend

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, White, People

  "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Mean, Feelings, Pits

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• You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

  Douglas Coupland

  Young

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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