Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

To grow old is to grow common. 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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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

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

Rahel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Irish

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Paul, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

34.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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