Donald Hall Quotes

I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.

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

It sucks getting old.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

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

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.

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

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

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

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

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

Nobody stays young forever.

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.