Joe Garagiola Quotes

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

For me, old age is just something that happens.

I used to love getting older.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

I don't want to age myself.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.