Aging Quotes

1128 quotes by 787 authors

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and… — Betty Friedan
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of… — Ashley Montagu
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young… — Victor Hugo
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right… — John Powell
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right… — Eliphas Levi
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing… — Lydia M. Child
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can… — Marianne Williamson
And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You… — Doris Lessing
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his… — Simone de Beauvoir
Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward. — Max Lucado
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is… — William Faulkner
How can I die? I'm booked. — George Burns
There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion… — Bruce Lee
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts… — Atul Gawande
Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion. — Pete Egoscue
About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after… — Don Herold
In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult… — Naoto Kan

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