Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Brown, Captain J.

12.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

14.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

18.

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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

25.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Vaughan, Henry

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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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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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

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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