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

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

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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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.

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Burns, George

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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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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

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

Cope, Wendy

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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

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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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 an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Billings, Josh

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

42.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene