Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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

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

Chevalier, Maurice

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

15.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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

Byron, Lord

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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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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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Carter, Lillian

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Kanin, Garson

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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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

34.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Billings, Josh

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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

39.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

43.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

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

46.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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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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.