Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Burroughs, John

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

Updike, John

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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

11.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Day, Doris

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

15.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

25.

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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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 golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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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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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Brown, Les

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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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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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.