Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

- Hackman, Gene

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

10.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

12.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

13.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

17.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

18.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

19.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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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.

22.

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 foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

25.

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

Burke, Billie

26.

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

Chevalier, Maurice

27.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

29.

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

30.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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

32.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Philo

34.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

36.

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

37.

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

Hope, Bob

38.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

41.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

44.

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

Johnson

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