Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Age and aging

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Jung, Carl

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Fonda, Jane

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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

11.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Day, Doris

15.

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.

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

17.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

18.

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

19.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

20.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

22.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

23.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

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

Wordsworth, William

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

30.

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

31.

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

Kanin, Garson

32.

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

Christie, Agatha

33.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

34.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

35.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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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

38.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Astaire, Fred

40.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

41.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

42.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

49.

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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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