Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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

Collins, Mortimer

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

Wharton, Edith

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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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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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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

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

Powell, Anthony

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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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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Hope, Bob

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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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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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

Hope, Bob

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Brookner, Anita

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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

Brown, Captain J.

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

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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

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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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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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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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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

48.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William