Peter Morgan Quotes

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different points in different people's lives, and obviously there are lots of people who experience the presence of death much more keenly and much earlier than I did. But we all come to grips with it eventually.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.