Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Paul, Jean

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

Ullman, Samuel

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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

Rahel

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

15.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, Irish

18.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Chevalier, Maurice

20.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

23.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

24.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

28.

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

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

30.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

32.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

34.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

35.

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

Updike, John

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

37.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

40.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

41.

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

42.

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

Chopra, Deepak

44.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

50.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles