Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Age and aging

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

11.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Cope, Wendy

13.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

14.

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

15.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

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

18.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

19.

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

20.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

21.

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

Ullman, Samuel

22.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

23.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

27.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

28.

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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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

31.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

32.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

36.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

42.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

43.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Brown, Captain J.

45.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

46.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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

48.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

49.

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

Beckett, Samuel

50.

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