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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Meir, Golda

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Becker, May L.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Greier, John

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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.

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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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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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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.