#growing old

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

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

#easy #ego #ever #fifties #forties