Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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

Cope, Wendy

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.

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

12.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Dickens, Charles

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

18.

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

Buruch, Andre B.

19.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

20.

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

Ball, Lucille

21.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Kuhn, Maggie

24.

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

Woolf, Virginia

25.

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

Richards, Keith

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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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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

28.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

30.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

32.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

33.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

38.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

39.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

40.

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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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Hoagland, Edward

45.

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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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

47.

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

Bunuel, Luis

48.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

49.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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

Wharton, Edith