Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Schulz, Charles M.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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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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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.

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

Burns, George

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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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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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Einstein, Albert

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Vaughan, Henry

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)