Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Brown, Captain J.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

11.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

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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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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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

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Ullman, Samuel

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

Rostand, Jean

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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

Johnson

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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To grow old is to grow common. 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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Burke, Billie

41.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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

Christie, Agatha

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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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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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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.