Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Billings, Josh

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

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

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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 older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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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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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Richards, Keith

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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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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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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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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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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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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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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