Best Age Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.”

“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going.”

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.”

“Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.”

“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?”

“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago...”

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...”

“I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”

“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.”

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”

“I can’t tell if I am getting angrier as I get older, or if people are genuinely getting more irritating. Anyway. Love you!”

“With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.”

“Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,”

“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”

“But I want to write poetry”

“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew”

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though”

“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“The lecture halls of the world are filled with senior citizens who seek greater knowledge and wisdom. The explanatory drive that was there when they were babies is still there now.”

“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.”

“Getting older is not an intellectually demanding process.”

“Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.”

“A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.”

“We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.”

“He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.”

“Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.”

“People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.”

“Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.”