Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

Hope, Bob

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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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

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

Philo

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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

Burns, George

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Richards, Keith

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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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

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Mittleman, Stu

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel