Growing Old Quotes
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I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.
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When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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No man loves life like him that's growing old.
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This autumn - why am I growing old? Bird disappearing among clouds.
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I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.
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...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.
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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.
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I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
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The most important thing is growing old gracefully.
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There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
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No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
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Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
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I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
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It wasn't my mother's laugh, the obscene laughter of a woman who knows. In Nella there was something chaste and yet vulgar, it was the laugh of an aging virgin that asailed me and pushed me to laugh, too, but in a forced way. I saw myself growing old, with that laugh of malicious innocence in my breast. I thought: I'll end up laughing like that, too.
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The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
