#growing old

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

#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

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

The trick is growing up without growing old. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#growing #growing old #growing up #old #trick

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

#around #assumed #cut #dying #early

But time growing old teaches all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

#all things #growing #growing old #old #teaches

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#committed #crime #growing #growing old #haven

A man growing old becomes a child again. ↗

— Sophocles

#again #becomes #child #growing #growing old

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