Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Meir, Golda

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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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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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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

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

Billings, Josh

18.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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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.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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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

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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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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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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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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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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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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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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

43.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Dressler, Marie

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Burke, Billie

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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