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Growing Old Quotes

We’ve collected the best Growing Old Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Johnny Depp, Edith Head, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Judy Parfitt. Use them as an inspiration.

1
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
2
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
3
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven‘t committed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
5
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6
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
7
I’m just growing old, darling. I don’t know about gracefully.
Judy Parfitt
8
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
9
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
Ben Folds
10
I would have to honestly say that my biggest regret is even starting this sport. I think I would’ve lived a different life if I would’ve stayed home in Memphis and worked at the family business. I’d be closer to my family and growing old with them instead of living out at California.
Quinton Jackson
11
Women shouldn’t have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
Keren Woodward
12
Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
George Clooney
13
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
14
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Logan Pearsall Smith
15
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
George Wald
16
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Washington Irving
17
I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.
Erin O’Connor
18
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
19
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy Graham
20
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It’s tough on the ego.
Geoffrey Rush
21
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
22
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.
Loudon Wainwright III
23
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
Francis Ford Coppola
24
I’m growing old, I delight in the past.
Henri Matisse
25
I think believing in eternal love or growing old together, people might think is a bit old fashioned. I am bit old fashioned, and I truly believe that it can happen provided that you do find the correct person.
Sidharth Malhotra
26
No country‘s policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year‘s time, a government can look different. You can’t influence them if you don’t talk to them.
Martti Ahtisaari
27
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
28
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Ed Koch
29
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
Francis Ford Coppola
30
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
31
Women shouldn’t have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
Keren Woodward
32
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles
33
I’m not scared of growing old, I’m just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
Melanie Laurent
34
There’s that term ‘growing old gracefully’ but why should you? There’s nothing wrong with a little tweak here and there if it’s right for you.
Kym Marsh
35
There’s that term ‘growing old gracefully’ but why should you? There’s nothing wrong with a little tweak here and there if it’s right for you.
Kym Marsh
36
The people I’ve respected most in the industry over the years – Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It’s understanding that you’re now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
George Clooney
37
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
38
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles… like Audrey Hepburn.
Natalie Imbruglia
39
The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I’ve still got, but losing the memory is another matter.
Miriam Margolyes
40
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
41
I would have to honestly say that my biggest regret is even starting this sport. I think I would’ve lived a different life if I would’ve stayed home in Memphis and worked at the family business. I’d be closer to my family and growing old with them instead of living out at California.
Quinton Jackson
42
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
43
I’ve looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn’t be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
Joanna Lumley
44
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
John James Audubon
45
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
46
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we’re going to have to define differently what I’m going to be. We’re going to have to define my growing up differently.
Mattie Stepanek
47
My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people’s!
Jane Goldman
48
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we’re going to have to define differently what I’m going to be. We’re going to have to define my growing up differently.
Mattie Stepanek
49
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
Sophocles
50
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
51
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Thom Gunn
52
I’m not scared of growing old, I’m just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
Melanie Laurent
53
But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus
54
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
55
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
Michael Caine
56
My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people’s!
Jane Goldman
57
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Julie Burchill
58
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
59
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives.
Martha Gellhorn
60
No country‘s policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year‘s time, a government can look different. You can’t influence them if you don’t talk to them.
Martti Ahtisaari
61
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.
Billy Graham
62
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
63
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven‘t committed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
64
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.
Billy Graham
65
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Thom Gunn
66
I never thought I’d reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn’t scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.
Edward Furlong
67
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
68
The people I’ve respected most in the industry over the years – Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It’s understanding that you’re now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
George Clooney
69
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy Graham
70
I’m growing old, I delight in the past.
Henri Matisse
71
The thing about growing old is you have to accept it – if you don’t, you’ll be as miserable as sin. You’ve got to try and find the few good things about it.
Judy Parfitt
72
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Logan Pearsall Smith
73
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
George Wald
74
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Julie Burchill
75
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives.
Martha Gellhorn