16 Quotes About Getting-Old

As we age, we get to experience more than just our own lives. We see the world through the eyes of our children and grandchildren, and get to relive their struggles and successes. We get to be a part of their lives for a little while, and we cherish every moment. Here’s a collection of quotes about getting old and growing older that will help you appreciate life and all its many gifts.

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So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. Jennifer Egan
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Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old. Debasish Mridha
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Getting old means getting lucky sometimes means sometimes you learn & along with other sweeter acquisitions you learn that ninetenths of what goes down is bullshit that there's just no way to be with people & not smear yr tongue with bullshit lies that it doesn't help to fuck with people & anyway once you know how it's no fun any more John Thomas Idlet
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But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep. Dexter Palmer
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When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium. Unknown
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Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp. Richelle E. Goodrich
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The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind... Gabrielle Zevin
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HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION I am born as the sun, But then turn into the moon, As my blonde hairs turn Grayish-white and fall To the ground, Only to be buried again, Then to be born again, Into a thousand suns And a thousand Moons. Suzy Kassem Suzy Kassem
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But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Mark Twain
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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. Phyllis Diller
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It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. Katherine Dunn
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In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being. Anthony Powell
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The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now. Andrena Sawyer
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Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live. Janet Turpin Myers
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When I grow up I want to be an old woman. Michelle Shocked