Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

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

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

10.

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

Ullman, Samuel

11.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

12.

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

Lerner, Max

13.

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

Day, Doris

14.

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

Christie, Agatha

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

17.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

18.

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

19.

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

Jung, Carl

21.

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

22.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

23.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

24.

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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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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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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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

28.

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

Arden, Elizabeth

29.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

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

Chopra, Deepak

32.

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

Burke, Billie

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

35.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

38.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

40.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

42.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

43.

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

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

47.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

48.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Captain J.

50.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson