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Aging Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.”

John Steinbeck

Aging, Manhood, Childhood, Violence, Growth, Life

2. “A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.”

Aldous Huxley

Youth, Aging, Mental Rigidity, Societal Critique, Human Nature, Generational Observation

3. “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Aging, Family Resemblance, Fatherhood, Generational Traits, Life Cycle, Personal Identity

4. “A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Aging, Perspective, Life, Wisdom, Realization

5. “Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.”

William Butler Yeats

Friendship, Tragedy, Beauty, Aging, Loss, Loneliness

6. “After 40, a man is responsible for his face.”

George Orwell

Aging, Responsibility, Identity, Appearance, Self-Reflection

7. “After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Youth, Aging, Life, Perspective, Human Nature

8. “Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.”

Michel de Montaigne

Aging, Mind, Soul, Human Nature, Life Cycle

9. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Mark Twain

Age, Perspective, Mindset, Aging, Resilience

10. “All diseases run into one, old age.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aging, Mortality, Life, Time, Health

11. “All over America high school and college kids thinking ‘Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking’ while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded.”

Jack Kerouac

Youth, Perspective, Reality, Aging, Disillusionment

12. “All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth, Illusion, Disenchantment, Aging, Life Stages, Personal Growth

13. “All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.”

William Butler Yeats

Reflection, Aging, Regret, Confusion, Introspection, Solitude

14. “Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.”

Steve Maraboli

Aging, Humor, Self-reflection, Life perspective, Growth, Embracing change

15. “And there’s the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.”

Sylvia Plath

Existentialism, Fleeting Happiness, Impermanence, Aging, Acceptance, Self-awareness

16. “Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.”

Franz Kafka

Beauty, Youth, Perception, Timelessness, Aging, Awareness

17. “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

Franz Kafka

Beauty Vision, Aging Reflection, Beauty, Vision, Aging, Timelessness

18. “As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”

Neil Gaiman

Aging, Family, Identity, Repetition, Perception

19. “As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aging, Beauty, Inner Self, Wisdom, Transformation

20. “As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Aging, Comfort, Human Connection, Time, Intimacy