Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

How can I die? I'm booked.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carter, Lillian

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

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

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Greier, John

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Burroughs, John

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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

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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.