Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

- Dressler, Marie

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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]

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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

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

Burns, George

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

13.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

17.

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

Christie, Agatha

18.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

23.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

24.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

25.

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

26.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

27.

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

Proverb, Irish

28.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

Jung, Carl

31.

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

Young, Edward

32.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

33.

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

Hope, Bob

34.

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.

35.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

39.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

40.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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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

42.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

44.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Woolf, Virginia

48.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

49.

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

50.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.