Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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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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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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

Young, Edward

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Byron, Lord

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Collins, Mortimer

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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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 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

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset