Erin McKean Quotes

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

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.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

How young can you die of old age?

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Often it is fatal to live too long.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

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.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

The young may die, but the old must!

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

Old age is the verdict of life.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.