Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

- Curtis, George William

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Powell, Anthony

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Lessing, Doris

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

Christie, Agatha

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

12.

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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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

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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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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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Collins, Mortimer

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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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

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.