Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

- Collins, Mortimer

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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

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 have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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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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

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

34.

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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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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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.