Quotes about 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    Share


"When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty."

Ullman, Samuel on age and aging    Share

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust."

Ullman, Samuel on age and aging    Share

"It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke."

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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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"If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars."

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"Age withers only the outside."

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

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"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

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"Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it."

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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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"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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"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

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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."

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"You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow."

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

Updike, John on age and aging    Share

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

Vaughan, Henry on age and aging    Share

"But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it."

Viorst, Judith on age and aging    Share

"Age carries all things away, even the mind."

Virgil on age and aging    Share

"Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."

Voltaire on age and aging    Share

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

Wharton, Edith on age and aging    Share

"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 on age and aging    Share

"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    Share

"O Time and change! -- with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!"

Whittier, John Greenleaf on age and aging    Share

"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 on age and aging    Share

"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 on age and aging
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"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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging    Share

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."

Woolf, Virginia on age and aging    Share

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

Woolf, Virginia on age and aging    Share

"At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials."

Woolf, Virginia on age and aging    Share

"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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"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."

Wordsworth, William on age and aging    Share

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

Wordsworth, William on age and aging    Share

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick"

Yeats, William Butler on age and aging    Share

"The person of wisdom is the person of years."

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