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

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

Byron, Lord

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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.

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

Turner, Tina

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

10.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

11.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

12.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

13.

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

14.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

16.

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

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

21.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

25.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

29.

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

Woolf, Virginia

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

Burns, George

32.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

33.

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

Greier, John

34.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

35.

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

Thurber, James

36.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Carey, Joyce

39.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

40.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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

44.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

45.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

46.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

48.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward