Quotes on Growing Old

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

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

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

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.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.