Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about 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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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

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

Paul, Jean

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

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

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Harris, Corra May

15.

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

Ullman, Samuel

16.

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

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

Brown, Captain J.

20.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

21.

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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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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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

26.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

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

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

31.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

33.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

34.

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

42.

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

43.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

44.

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

45.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

46.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

47.

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

49.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur