Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

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

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

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.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

My audience is going to die before I do.

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

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

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

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

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

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

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.