Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Einstein, Albert

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Beckett, Samuel

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Christie, Agatha

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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 can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Billings, Josh

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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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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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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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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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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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Wharton, Edith

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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