Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Kanin, Garson

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Cope, Wendy

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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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.

21.

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

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

Updike, John

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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

Browning, Robert

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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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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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)

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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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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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 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