Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Brown, Les

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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

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

Burke, Billie

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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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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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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hugo, Victor

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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

Steele, Sir Richard

26.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Lerner, Max

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

43.

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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

Rahel

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.