Marcus Terentius Varro Quotes

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

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

This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Old age is the verdict of life.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

I feel old.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.