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

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.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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

Jung, Carl

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

10.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

15.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

16.

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

Woolf, Virginia

17.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

18.

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

Paul, Jean

19.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

20.

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.

21.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

22.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

23.

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

24.

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

Mittleman, Stu

25.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Woolf, Virginia

31.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

32.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

38.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

43.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

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

Burke, Billie

45.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

46.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

47.

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

Proverb, Irish

48.

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

Ali, Muhammad

49.

It takes a long time to become young.