Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

22.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Beckett, Samuel

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

35.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

36.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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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