Malcolm Cowley Quotes

I'll try to be young mentally and physically as long as I can to play as many games as possible, but I know, at one point, it will start to be more difficult.

Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

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.

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

At 87, I have to keep moving because, if I sit down, you never know what might happen.

No one looks forward to getting old do they?

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

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.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Even my stuntman is old.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.