Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

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

Schulz, Charles M.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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

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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

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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

Cato The Elder

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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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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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

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

39.

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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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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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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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

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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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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

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De