Growing Old Quotes - Page 9

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

  Gary Gulman

  Usual, Watches, Growing

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• I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

  Freddie Mercury

  Growing, Boring, Aspiration

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• 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.

  Li Bai

  Needs, World, Growing

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• I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

  Geoff Dyer

  Boys, Thinking, Profound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.

  Geoff Dyer

  Home, Night, Drunk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. 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.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Children, Fun

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

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• I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sadness, Growing, Life Learning

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

  Sylvia Porter

  Dream, Retirement, Mean

  Sylvia Field Porter (1976). “Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life”

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• Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Growing, Youth

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.32, Diversion Books

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Dog, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

  Emily Dickinson

  Revenge, Hate, Enemy

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.489, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, New York, Past

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Art, Growing, Process

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

  Rowan Williams

  Anger, Culture, Growing

  Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

  William Mountford

  Believe, Childhood, Age

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2

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• 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

  Thinking, Growing, Becoming

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

  Philip Roth

  Growing Up, Thinking, Worry

  "The Dying Animal". Book by Philip Roth, 2001.

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• 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

  Acceptance, Romance, Midwest

  Stewart O'Nan (2008). “Songs for the Missing: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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• and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

  Jack Kerouac

  Rags, Growing, Forlorn

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.366, Penguin

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• How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Achievement, Challenges, Growing

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