Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Age and aging

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Cato The Elder

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wharton, Edith

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Billings, Josh

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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

Woolf, Virginia

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.