Haniel Long Quotes

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

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

I have spent seventy years finding out that I am not God.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.