Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age considers; youth ventures.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mittleman, Stu

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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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

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

Hope, Bob

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

Marx, Groucho

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Chopra, Deepak

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Day, Doris

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Billings, Josh

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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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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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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

Ali, Muhammad

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Burns, George

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jung, Carl

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

Buruch, Andre B.

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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.