#growing old

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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The trick is growing up without growing old. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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But time growing old teaches all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ↗

— Euripides

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I'm growing old, I delight in the past. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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A man growing old becomes a child again. ↗

— Sophocles

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No one longs to live more than someone growing old. ↗

— Sophocles

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