Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Astaire, Fred

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Bible

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

28.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lerner, Max

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