Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

The young may die, but the old must!

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

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.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

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