#growing old

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. ↗

— Ben Folds

#getting #growing #growing old #late #never

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 #contemporary #culture #disgust #even

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

#becoming #being #center #front #growing

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

#begin #compliment #friends #growing #growing old

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#audrey hepburn #full #gracefully #growing #growing old

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

— Julie Burchill

#easier #fame #gracefully #growing #growing old

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

— George Wald

#am #behind #future #growing #growing old

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

#car #complaining #done #feel #find

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#because #begins #father #growing #growing old

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

— Andre Maurois

#bad #bad habit #busy #busy person #form