Billy Graham Quotes

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.

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

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer.

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.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

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

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.