Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

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)

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

Brown, Les

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

Hoagland, Edward

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

16.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Hope, Bob

20.

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

Hope, Bob

21.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

22.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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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.

24.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

27.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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

Billings, Josh

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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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 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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

47.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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