75 Quotes About Growing-older

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being friends, that’s just something you are. I’d pick you. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years with your dude and your adopted kids and I want our fucking kids to hang out and I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we’re gonna do when we’re old. We’ve been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I’d pick you.

glass will cutyou every day, andsometimes you willcrawl through hellto feel the sun.

The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood.

I'm not a grownup, just a kid who has been around for a while.

The most dangerous things about humans are their choices. But you’re too small to be dangerous. The problem starts when humans grow up. They can quickly become a threat.

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)