Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Tholuck

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Johnson

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

10.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

11.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

13.

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

14.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

15.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

16.

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

Christie, Agatha

17.

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

18.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

22.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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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

25.

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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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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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

28.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

29.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

34.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

35.

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

Hope, Bob

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

41.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Richards, Keith

44.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

45.

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

46.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

49.

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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.