Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

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.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

11.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

13.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

14.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

15.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

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

17.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

18.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

20.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

21.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

22.

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

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

23.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

25.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

Child, Lydia M.

28.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

30.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

32.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

33.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

35.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

36.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

37.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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.

41.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

42.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

43.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

44.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

45.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

50.

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

Bleasdale, Alan