Judith Viorst Quotes

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Laugh, and you'll live without Medicaid until you're 100.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

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

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.