Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Meyers, Ernest

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

11.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Byron, Lord

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

14.

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

Thurber, James

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

17.

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

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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

19.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

20.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

22.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

28.

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

Gabriel, Peter

29.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

33.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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

40.

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

Updike, John

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

Chopra, Deepak

44.

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

Turner, Tina

45.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greier, John

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.