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

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.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Brookner, Anita

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.