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 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

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Paul, Jean

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

Cope, Wendy

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

18.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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

25.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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

Dressler, Marie

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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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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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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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

35.

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

36.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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

Billings, Josh

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

43.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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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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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Nicklaus, Jack