Yoko Ono Quotes

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

All diseases run into one, old age.

We're not getting any younger.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.