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

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

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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

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

Brown, Captain J.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Burns, George

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

Wharton, Edith

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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

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Cass, Eli

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Carter, Lillian

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Cope, Wendy

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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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

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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

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan