Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

- Curtis, George William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Lerner, Max

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

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

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

10.

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

Becker, May L.

11.

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

Vaughan, Henry

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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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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Billings, Josh

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Burns, George

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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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 person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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

Meir, Golda

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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