Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Age and aging

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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

Brown, Les

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

10.

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

Young, Edward

11.

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

14.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

15.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Christie, Agatha

17.

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

Carey, Joyce

18.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

19.

Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Brown, Captain J.

21.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

22.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

23.

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

24.

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

Paul, Jean

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

29.

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

Cato The Elder

30.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

32.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

34.

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

35.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

37.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

38.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

39.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

40.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

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

42.

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

Rahel

43.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

44.

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

45.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

47.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

48.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

50.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin