Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

10.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Beckett, Samuel

12.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

17.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

23.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

24.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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

27.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

28.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

31.

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

32.

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

Burke, Billie

33.

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

34.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

35.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Hope, Bob

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Ullman, Samuel

43.

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

Fonda, Jane

44.

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

45.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

46.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

Jung, Carl

49.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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.