Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dressler, Marie

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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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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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Meyers, Ernest

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Young, Edward

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe