Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

How can I die? I'm booked.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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

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

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

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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

13.

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

Rostand, Jean

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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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 woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Byron, Lord

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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

Vaughan, Henry

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

Ullman, Samuel

33.

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

37.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Carey, Joyce

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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