141 Quotes About Growing-old

"We think they’re better than us, the white-haired folks we call grandma and grandpa. But being old doesn’t mean you’ve adjusted to the loneliness. They are saddened, desiring, passionate folks who want adventure."

"Birthdays are happy as a child, defeatist with age and joyful again at surviving another year."

"As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about."

"The nice thing about getting old is that you can be as eccentric as you want, everyone expects it!"

"The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old."

"The privilege of living a long life comes at a price -the increasing loss of those we know and love around us."

"What I keep thinking about is that... it’s a long time ahead of me without her. My whole 20s. And 30s. And the rest of my life. How am I supposed to do all that? It was so early."

"You think I got over you? I just got older."

"Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world’s perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph"