Aging Quotes

1128 quotes by 787 authors

It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot
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… — George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known… — George Eliot
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… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
People do not retire. They are retired by others. — Duke Ellington
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All diseases run into one, old age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. — Jules Feiffer
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. — Edna Ferber
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any… — Margot Fonteyn
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. — Harrison Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep… — Henry Ford
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Edward Everett Hale
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. — Alexander Hamilton
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. — Knut Hamsun

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