Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Mortimer, John

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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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]

Bible

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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.

15.

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 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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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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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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

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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

33.

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Woolf, Virginia

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

47.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Moreau, Jeanne