Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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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

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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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 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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Greier, John

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Becker, May L.

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Rahel

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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

Fonda, Jane

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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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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