#growing old

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ↗

— Chili Davis

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

— Julie Burchill

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

— George Wald

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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

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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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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

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

— Ben Folds

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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

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