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Aging Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!”

Herman Melville

Immortal Youth, Elderly Aging, Timeless Spirit, Youth, Aging, Spirit

2. “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

Franz Kafka

Youthful Joy, Beauty Perception, Aging, Happiness, Vision, Timelessness

3. “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

Franz Kafka

Youth, Beauty, Happiness, Perception, Aging, Innocence

4. “Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth And Aging, Timelessness, Youth, Aging, Timelessness, Life

5. “You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known three centuries, poets sing, Of dalliance with a demon thing.”

William Butler Yeats

Aging Woes, Wandering Mind, Demonic Dalliance, Aging, Poets, Mind

6. “You slowly but surely become a has-been.”

Haruki Murakami

Fading Relevance, Time’s Toll, Personal Legacy, Has-Been, Aging, Decline

7. “You see a woman, you think that one day she’ll be old, only you don’t see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Shared Adventure, Temporal Love, Life’s Passage, Aging, Growth, Romance

8. “You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”

Marcus Aurelius

Aging, Time, Wisdom, Life, Patience, Reflection

9. “You miss so much when you’re young. It’s fine to be old. So exciting. And I’m not going to retire.”

Marilyn Monroe

Aging, Life, Experience, Joy, Wisdom

10. “You know you’ve reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.”

Abraham Lincoln

Aging, Caution, Wisdom, Humor, Life Stages

11. “You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Youth, Aging, Innocence, Responsibility, Human Nature

12. “You can live to be old or young, but you’ll always have moments when you lose your head.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Life’s Moments, Losing Control, Emotional Experience, Aging, Self-Reflection, Personal Struggles

13. “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”

Coco Chanel

Timeless Beauty, Aging Grace, Personal Charm, Beauty, Charm, Aging

14. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

Mark Twain

Aging, Happiness, Smiles, Life, Positivity

15. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

William Shakespeare

Aging, Joy, Mirth, Laughter, Acceptance

16. “With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.”

Oprah Winfrey

Health, Aging, Wisdom, Appreciation, Life

17. “Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.”

Michel de Montaigne

Wine, Joy, Youth, Aging, Pleasure

18. “Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.”

George Eliot

Nature, Time, Aging, Transformation, Wisdom, Growth

19. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

Ernest Hemingway

Aging, Reflection, Time, Life, Perspective

20. “While younger women are told to be thinner and prettier, ads for older women emphasize looking younger and wrinkle free - tapping into the insecurities that many of us have about getting older.”

Mel Robbins

Beauty Standards, Insecurity, Aging, Media, Gender

21. “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.”

Mark Twain

Aging, Humor, Flattery, Insight, Perspective

22. “When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.”

Douglas Adams

Writing, Experience, Creativity, Career, Aging

23. “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

Mark Twain

Memory, Aging, Reflection, Humor, Loss