Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

- Romulo, Carlos Pena

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Lerner, Max

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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

Bleasdale, Alan

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

11.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

12.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

13.

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

14.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

15.

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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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

17.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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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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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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

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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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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

25.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

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

Woolf, Virginia

27.

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

Burke, Billie

28.

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

Browning, Robert

29.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

33.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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

Chevalier, Maurice

39.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

40.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Defoe, Daniel

46.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

48.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

49.

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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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler