Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Carter, Lillian

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wharton, Edith

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

10.

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

Ullman, Samuel

11.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

13.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

14.

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

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Burroughs, John

19.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

20.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kanin, Garson

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

23.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

24.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Paul, Jean

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

36.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

37.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

38.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tholuck

41.

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

Carey, Joyce

42.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

44.

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

Woolf, Virginia

45.

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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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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Burns, George