141 Quotes About Growing-old
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering and I responded … sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly."
"It seems like a long time, but what are nine years except for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and thinking about the past?"
"Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car."
"We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory."
"But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!"
"All age is a kind of tiredness, I think. When you’re young, the lines never show. Every morning you wake unmarked, wiped clear by sleep. One day, though, you see lines that itch, as though some crumb of existence has been creased into your skin. They can never be smoothed away, and after a while you forget that this heavy, irritable feeling wasn’t always there."
"Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life."
"Ageing is the growing chasm between the familiarity of memories and their fading distance in time. Old age is when the past is so far back it appears more surreal than a life lived. Death is when the individual relinquishes their tenuous grip on their life history."