Aging Quotes

1128 quotes by 787 authors

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures… — Anne Lamott
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. — Oscar Wilde
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour. — Oprah Winfrey
If I were younger, I'd know more. — James M. Barrie
I prefer old age to the alternative. — Maurice Chevalier
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. — Gypsy Rose Lee
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. — Henny Youngman
Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather… — Jane Smiley
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to… — Katherine Anne Porter
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life. — David Gerrold
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for… — Louisa May Alcott
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and… — Salman Rushdie
Grief is the price of victory. — Frank Herbert
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions… — Vachel Lindsay
I like life. It's something to do. — Ronnie Shakes
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. — Willa Cather

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