Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Fonda, Jane

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Woolf, Virginia

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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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.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Bible

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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