Growing Older Quotes

Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris.

Jane Tara

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

James Lee Burke

We keep making decisions, every day, half without thinking, half against our will. If we don't fight back, if we allow ourselves to change, to be changed, then once it's done we have to do other things, and on and on until the person we wanted to be is so far away in the past that we only remember her, longingly, as if she were a beloved stranger.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Barbara Delinsky

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)

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.