Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gabriel, Peter

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Kronenberger, Louis

21.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

25.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

26.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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