Joan D. Vinge Quotes

All diseases run into one, old age.

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.

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

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

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

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

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

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

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

Often it is fatal to live too long.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

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

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

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

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.