Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Kuhn, Maggie

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

Vaughan, Henry

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

11.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

12.

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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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

Burns, George

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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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

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stael, Germaine De

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Ullman, Samuel

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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