Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

- Viorst, Judith

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Hope, Bob

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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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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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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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

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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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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

16.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

17.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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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.

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Meir, Golda

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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

Hope, Bob

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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

Burroughs, John

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Palmer, R.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti