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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

12.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

14.

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

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

Rahel

16.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

17.

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

Hope, Bob

18.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

19.

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

20.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ullman, Samuel

24.

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

Palmer, Arnold

25.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

26.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

30.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

34.

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

35.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

36.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

37.

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

Becker, May L.

38.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

39.

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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Meir, Golda

43.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

44.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

45.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

46.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Marx, Groucho

50.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.