Elayne Boosler Quotes

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

There's no one who has been living for centuries.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

Life is the longest death in California.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.