Being a senior citizen comes with its own set of joys and challenges. As we age, we often have more time to pursue our interests and hobbies, and we may have the opportunity to spend more time with our loved ones. We may also have accumulated wisdom and life experience that we can pass on to younger generations.
Additionally, being a senior citizen often comes with certain perks, such as discounts on goods and services. While there may be challenges that come with aging, there is also much to be grateful for and enjoy.
In this article, we’ve put together a list of 70 inspirational senior citizen quotes from older individuals who have lived long and rich lives. Whether you’re a senior citizen yourself or are simply interested in the experiences that come with aging, these quotes can provide valuable insights and inspiration.
“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.”
Jimmy Buffet
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
Aldous Huxley
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“The spirit never ages. It stays forever young.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
Groucho Marx
“Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success.”
African proverb
“You know what? I’m not young and I’m ok with that. I feel so much more comfortable. It’s like I’ve taken off a mask.”
Andie MacDowell
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”
Booth Tarkington
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
Robert Browning
“To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one’s bones and cragginess of one’s once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.”
Maya Angelou
“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional!”
Walt Disney
“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”
David Mamet
“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
Nicholas Sparks
“Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25 unless we haven’t had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.”
Martha Beck
“When you’re 50, you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity – but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”
Eugene O’Neill.
“Getting older makes you more alive. More vitality, more interest, more intelligence, more grace, more expansion.”
Jamie Lee Curtis
“Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese!”
Billie Burke
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
Confucius
“Its not how old you are, its how you are old.”
Jules Renard
“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”
David Bowie
“The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable.”
Leon Edel
“With age comes a lot of wisdom, and I’m happier now than I’ve ever been.”
Jada Pinkett Smith
“Ageing is just another word for living.”
Cindy Joseph
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”
Wodehouse
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
Maggie Kuhn
“I like the way I look. I like the way I feel. I like my energy. I have wisdom. I have perspective, and I can tell you that aging can be so incredible.”
Suzanne Somers
“We are always the same age inside.”
Gertrude Stein
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez
“It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to show for the aging.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
Coco Chanel
“Growing older gracefully means having a keen curiosity about learning things about the world that you didn’t know yesterday, no matter how many yesterdays you’ve had.”
Padma Lakshmi
“One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming.”
Morgan Harper Nichols
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.”
Golda Meir
“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”
George Burns
“The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.”
Mike Love
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan
“The combination of my learning, maturing, and earning my wrinkles, combined with the way I look, I believe is the best balance I have ever had.”
Paulina Porizkova
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
Ingrid Bergman
“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”
Ausonius
“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
Saki
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I don’t mind being older. I’m proud of my age. I’ve achieved a lot, isn’t it strange that now we’re living longer we have so much less respect for old age?”
Jerry Hall
“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.”
Mae West
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
Samuel Ullman
“Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.”
Billy Graham
“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
Walt Disney
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”
Miguel de Unamuno
“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
Christopher Morley
“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.”
Fay Weldon
“I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”
T. S. Eliot.
“Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get!”
Keith Richards
“It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.”
Francis Ford Coppola
“There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.”
Céline Dion
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
Herman Melville.
“It’s wonderful to know you’re aging, because that means you’re still on the planet, right?”
Goldie Hawn
“A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”
Pindar
“There is a beautiful thing inside you that is thousands of years old. Too old to be captured in poems. Too old to be loved by everyone. But loved so very deeply by a chosen few.”
Nikita Gill
“It’s a great thing getting older. You are who you are; you say what you mean.”
Reese Witherspoon
“I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.”
Ruth Rendell Young.
“My belief is that it’s a privilege to get older not everybody gets to get older.”
Cameron Diaz
Wrapping Up
These quotes offer a range of perspectives on aging, from the challenges of physical and cognitive decline to the rewards of wisdom and experience. They also offer insights into the challenges and rewards of growing older in a world that often values youth and vitality over experience and wisdom.
These quotes can also inspire and motivate us and can provide valuable perspectives on life, love, and happiness. They can remind us of the importance of staying active and engaged, no matter our age.
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