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Growing Old Quotes

I'm growing older, but not up.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Song: Growing Older But Not Up, Album: Coconut Telegraph, 1981

Nature abhors the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.159, Penguin

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.32, Diversion Books

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt