Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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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

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

Tholuck

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hoagland, Edward

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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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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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Harrison, Jane

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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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

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Hershfield, Harry

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

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

Wharton, Edith

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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