Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Hope, Bob

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Kanin, Garson

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.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Desmoulins, Camille

11.

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

12.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

Lerner, Max

14.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

17.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

18.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

19.

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

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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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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

25.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Hoagland, Edward

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

29.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Burroughs, John

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

34.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

39.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

40.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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

42.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

45.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

46.

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

Becker, May L.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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