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

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

Cato The Elder

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.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hope, Bob

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Christie, Agatha

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

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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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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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 is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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

Nuveen, John

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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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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Kanin, Garson

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Day, Doris

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Meyers, Ernest

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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

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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