Kate Christensen Quotes

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

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

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.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

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

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.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Old age is a shipwreck.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.