Getting Older quotes
193 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older."
"Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many."
"Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything."
"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."
"The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?"
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"You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift."
"Wrinkles are engraved smiles."
"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain."
""Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire."
"The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least."
"There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality."
"A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories."
"Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."
"Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?"
"It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old."
"It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."
"The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing."
"As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time."
"I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die."
"Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy."
"All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow."
"I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten."
"If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be."
"I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older."
"You have to embrace getting older."
