Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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)

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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

Child, Lydia M.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Greier, John

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

18.

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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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Dressler, Marie

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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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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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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

47.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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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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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.