Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Palmer, R.

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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

Burroughs, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Brown, Captain J.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.