Rose Macaulay Quotes

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

nobody ever intends to be old.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

We're not getting any younger.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!