"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) on age and aging   

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

Jung, Carl on age and aging
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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 on age and aging
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"Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."

Kuhn, Maggie on age and aging   

"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."

Kollwitz, KaThe on age and aging   

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."

Kuhn, Maggie on 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 on age and aging
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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 on age and aging
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"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."

Steele, Sir Richard on age and aging   

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

Stael, Germaine De on age and aging   

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."

Ullman, Samuel on age and aging   

"Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"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 on age and aging
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"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."

Whitman, Walt on age and aging   

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"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 on age and aging   

"Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

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

Richards, Keith on age and aging
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"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on age and aging   

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

Lerner, Max on age and aging
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"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 on age and aging   

"For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on age and aging
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"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age."

Loren, Sophia on age and aging
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"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

Macdonald, George on age and aging   

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on age and aging
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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 on age and aging   

"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 on age and aging   

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

Maugham, W. Somerset on age and aging   

"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on life
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"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life   

"We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture."

Kundera, Milan on life
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"If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on life
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"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on life
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"To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one."

Kornfield, Jack on life   

"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions."

Klee, Paul on life   

"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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