At my age right now, unlike in my twenties, I have come to realize the importance to accept aging. I am inspired through my search for age quotes and would like to share the famous, beautiful, and inspirational quotes that will make you embrace life when you are getting older.
Aging happens to everyone and of course, no one would like to remain a kid forever. Growing old is part of life, the best thing to do is to age well.
In this post, I did a collation of quotes about age that will inspire you to embrace aging well. Whether you are searching for quotes to prove that age doesn’t matter, age and maturity, beauty, and age is just a number quotes. You will find these wise sayings perfect for you, kids, and seniors.
Quotes about aging
- “Age affects how people experience time.”―Edward T. Hall
- “Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.”―Tryon Edwards
- “Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.”― Johann Von Goethe
- “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”―Anais Nin
- “Age either transfigures or petrifies.”―Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”―Mark Twain
- “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”― Joan Collins
- “Age is just the amount of time that you have been on earth, what really matters is where you are going after your time is up.”―Nishan Panwar
- “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”―Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- “Age is no place for sissies.”―Bette Davis
- “Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”―Groucho Marx
- “Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.”―Billie Burke
- “Age is simply the number of years the world has enjoyed you!”― Nishan Panwar
- “Age is such a natural progression you shouldn’t fight it.”―Ann-Margret
- “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”―Muhammad Ali
- “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”―Betty Friedan
- “Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”―Albert Camus
- “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”― Agatha Christie
- “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”― John Lennon
- “Count your blessings for your age, as there are many who never get the opportunity.”― C Pulsifer
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- “Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”―Dylan Thomas
- “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”―Victor Hugo
- “He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.”― Plato
- “I am not young enough to know everything.”― Oscar Wilde
- “I believe the true function of age is memory. I’m recording as fast as I can.”―Rita Mae Brown
- “I don’t look my age, I don’t feel my age and I don’t act my age. To me age is just a number.”― Joan Collins
- “I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”―Lauren Bacall
- “I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”―James Broughton
- “In youth we learn; in age we understand.”―Ebner-Eschenbach
- “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”―Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Live your life and forget your age.”―Norman Vincent Peale
- “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”―Pope John XXIII
- “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”― C.S. Lewis
- “No matter what your age you can be great.”― Kishore Bansal
- “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”― Ernest Hemingway
- “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”― Herbert Hoover
- “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”― Oscar Wilde
- “People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it’s more about the state of your body.”― Geoffrey Parfitt
- “Science has proven that people who regularly jot down their thoughts in a journal are less likely to have cognitive and memory loss as they age.”―Christian J. Borg
- “Some age. Others mature.”―Sean Connery
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- “Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”― C.S. Lewis
- “Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.”―Ravensara Noite
- “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”― Madeleine L’Engle
- “The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”― Robinson Jeffers
- “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”―Oscar Wilde
- “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”― H.L. Mencken
- “The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”―William Wordsworth
- “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”―Sophia Loren
- “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”― Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”―Kurt Vonnegut
- “Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”―George Sand
- “We are always the same age inside.”―Gertrude Stein
- “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”―Victor Hugo
- “When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”― George Burns
- “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”―Tom Wilson
- “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”― Mark Twain
- “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”―George Burns
- “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”― J.K. Rowling
- “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”―Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “Youth is wasted on the young.”― George Bernard Shaw
Do you believe that age is just a number, and what are your most inspirational age quotes from this compilation? I would like to hear from you through the comment box below.
