Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Burns, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gabriel, Peter

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

Johnson

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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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.

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Thurber, James

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Christie, Agatha

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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.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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