Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

It takes a long time to become young.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

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

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

Hope, Bob

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Brown, Captain J.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Greier, John

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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

17.

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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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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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Carey, Joyce

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

Gabriel, Peter

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.