Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.