Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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]

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Becker, May L.

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Greier, John

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

11.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

13.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

14.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Vaughan, Henry

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

33.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nuveen, John

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

37.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Wharton, Edith

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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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

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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

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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

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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.