Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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)

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

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Chopra, Deepak

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.

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

Stael, Germaine De

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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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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

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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.

Kangas, Steve

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre