Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

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

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

Cope, Wendy

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Turner, Tina

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Kanin, Garson

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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 isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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

Young, Edward

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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

Meyers, Ernest

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George