Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Richards, Keith

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Billings, Josh

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Astaire, Fred

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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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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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.

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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.

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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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

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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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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 golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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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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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