Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

- Mcdonald, Trevor

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

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hope, Bob

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Palmer, R.

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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

Burke, Billie

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Rahel

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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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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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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Hope, Bob

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

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

Lerner, Max

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene