#growing old

But time growing old teaches all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

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

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

#because #finds #growing #growing old #me

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

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

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

#call #calls #come #darker #dearer

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. ↗

— Sophocles

#growing old #live #longs #more #old

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

— Edward Koch

#bosom #friend #growing #growing old #make