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

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.

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

Ullman, Samuel

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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.

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

10.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

12.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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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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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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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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

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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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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

42.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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 like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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

Burke, Billie

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

Billings, Josh

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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.