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

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Beckett, Samuel

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Palmer, R.

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

19.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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

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

Hope, Bob

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

25.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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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 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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

34.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

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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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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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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

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Meir, Golda

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

Chevalier, Maurice

44.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

Christie, Agatha

47.

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

Johnson

48.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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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