Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Proverb

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Hope, Bob

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

Meyers, Ernest

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

29.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Kanin, Garson

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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.