Aging quotes
423 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out."
"If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you."
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
"Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea."
"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened."
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"Your world is as big as you make it."
"There's nothing worse than being an aging young person."
"It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart."
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
"To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin."
"If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young."
"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture."
"Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was"
"I shall hear in heaven."
"The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole."
"The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind."
"To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion."
"Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy."
"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else."
"I'm glad I haven't lived in vain."
"The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals."
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
"A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside."
"Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'."
"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."
