#growing old

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I'm growing old, I delight in the past. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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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

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A man growing old becomes a child again. ↗

— Sophocles

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No one longs to live more than someone growing old. ↗

— Sophocles

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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. ↗

— Edward Koch

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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

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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ↗

— Chili Davis

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Growing old is not growing up. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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

— Ben Folds

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