Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

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

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

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

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

We're not getting any younger.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

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.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

Around 2015, I started to see my skills diminish. It happens to everybody. Father Time is undefeated. He is gonna win every time, and I saw him catching me.

You can't halt time.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

Why is youth so short and age so long?

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

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 older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.