10 Quotes on Getting Older from Books

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 10 quotes about Getting Older that I underlined from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

Getting Older Quotes from The Frozen River book by Ariel Lawhon

  • This is a new thing I've discovered about myself in recent years. The noises. Stand and groan. Sit and grunt. Some days it seems that I can hardly take a step without some part of my body creaking or cracking and this - even more than the gray hairs and the crow's-feet at my eyes - makes me feel as though I am racing down the final stretch of middle age.
  • This is what it means to age, I think. The days are long, but the years are short.

Getting Older Quotes from The Man Who Died Twice book by Richard Osman

  • Oh, my dear, as you get older you'll realize very few things are impossible.
  • It is fine to say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". It is admirable. But it no longer applies when you're eighty. When you are eighty whatever doesn't kill you just ushers you through the next door, and the next door and the next, and all of these doors lock behind you. No bouncing back. The gravitational pull of youth disappears, and you just float up and up.

Getting Older Quotes from The Thursday Murder Club book by Richard Osman

  • Getting out of a garden chair at our age is a military operation. Once you are in one, you can be in it for the day.
  • After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.

Other Getting Older Quotes

  • The older I get the more I hold each day precious. I've become steadily more relentless in purging from my life things, activities and people who no longer add value while seeking out and adding those that do. - The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins
  • It's hard getting old. Everyone treats you like a kid again. - Book Lovers by Emily Henry
  • By the time you're my age, you'll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little. - The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • You know you're old when you have to use soap on your head and shampoo on your ass. - My Friends by Fredrik Backman