Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

- Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kanin, Garson

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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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

Burke, Billie

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Richards, Keith

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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