Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Burroughs, John

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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

Einstein, Albert

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

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Burke, Billie

17.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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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

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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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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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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.

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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

Defoe, Daniel

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Swift, Jonathan

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