Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Bleasdale, Alan

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Thurber, James

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wharton, Edith

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Burke, Billie

10.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

11.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Bleasdale, Alan

13.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

14.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

15.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

16.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

17.

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

Browning, Robert

18.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

19.

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

20.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

21.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

23.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

24.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

25.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

31.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

32.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

33.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

34.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

38.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

39.

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

Burroughs, John

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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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Stael, Germaine De

47.

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

48.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

49.

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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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