Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Browning, Robert

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

Becker, May L.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Greier, John

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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.

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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

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Hope, Bob

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Billings, Josh

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice