Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

- Viorst, Judith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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 is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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

Turner, Tina

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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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

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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