Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Ray, Marie Beyon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Stael, Germaine De

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

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

Buruch, Andre B.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

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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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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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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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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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

Proverb

20.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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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

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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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 older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

28.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

37.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

38.

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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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Paul, Jean

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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